OCCURRENCE

Ohio Wesleyan University Mammal Specimens (Arctos)

Latest version published by Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History on 14 September 2023 Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
The Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History contains a small collection of mammals consisting of approximately 500 study skins, taxidermy mounts, tanned furs, and articulated and disarticulated skeletons. The majority of the mammals are native to Ohio and the eastern United States, with select others from Australia.
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The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 205 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    205
  • Multimedia 
    1

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How to cite

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Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History Mammal Specimens

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7f9b9e18-e266-4bc0-ac29-37b86c5fc24f.  Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Josh Pletcher
Student Curator
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
19706320027
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/
Lisa Tabak
Curatorial Director
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
90 S Henry St, SCSC 166
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
1-740-368-3887
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Josh Pletcher
Student Curator
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
19706320027
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/
Lisa Tabak
Curatorial Director
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
90 S Henry St, SCSC 166
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
1-740-368-3887
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/

Who filled in the metadata:

Josh Pletcher
Student Curator
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
19706320027
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/
Lisa Tabak
Curatorial Director
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
90 S Henry St, SCSC 166
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
1-740-368-3887
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/

Who else was associated with the resource:

Curator
Eric Gangloff
Assistant Professor of Zoology
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History
43015 Delaware
Ohio
US
1-740-368-3892
https://www.owu.edu/academics/natural-history-museum/
Programmer
David Bloom
VertNet Coordinator
http://www.vertnet.org
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
http://www.vertnet.org
Programmer
Dusty McDonald
Arctos Database Programmer
http://arctos.database.museum

Geographic Coverage

Mostly Ohio and eastern United States, and some other from Australia, Africa, and South America

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Didelphimorphia, Rodentia, Lagomorpha, Eulipotyphla, Carnivora, Chiroptera, Pholidota, Monotremata, Diprotodonta, Primates, Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla, Proboscidea, Pilosa, Cingulata, Cetacea

Class  Mammalia
Order  Didelphimorphia,  Rodentia,  Lagomorpha,  Eulipotyphla,  Carnivora,  Chiroptera,  Pholidota,  Monotremata,  Diprotodonta,  Primates,  Artiodactyla,  Perissodactyla,  Proboscidea,  Pilosa,  Cingulata,  Cetacea

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1852-Present

Collection Data

Collection Name Ohio Wesleyan University Mammal Specimens
Collection Identifier https://arctos.database.museum/collection/OWU:Mamm
Parent Collection Identifier OWU

Additional Metadata

Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Purpose Mammal reference and teaching collection
Alternative Identifiers OWMZ
7f9b9e18-e266-4bc0-ac29-37b86c5fc24f
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=owu_mamm