Description
The first fossil entries in the University of Alabama's Paleo collection were fossil nuts from Madison County, Alabama, reported by William MacMillan in 1831. Since then, the ALMNH Paleo Collections have expanded to include hundreds of thousands of Vertebrates, Invertebrates and Botanical specimens.
Data Records
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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.
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Alabama Museum of Natural History Paleontology Collection (Arctos)
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GBIF Registration
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Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
Geographically, most specimens (>85%) originate from Alabama and the University-owned Harrell Station. The remaining fossils come from other states (mainly Florida), and foreign countries. Highlights of the fossil collections include: One of the largest collections of mosasaurs in the world; abundant shark, fish, and turtle fossils, primarily from the Late Cretaceous; important collections of Pennsylvanian footprints and plants, and extensive collections of Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic invertebrate fossils, mostly mollusks, from Alabama and from Florida.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [25.086, -91.758], North East [36.244, -75.059] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Highlights of the fossil collections include one of the largest collections of mosasaurs in the world; abundant shark, fish, and turtle fossils, primarily from the Late Cretaceous; important collections of Pennsylvanian footprints and plants; extensive collections of Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic invertebrate fossils, mostly mollusks.
| Kingdom | Animalia (Animals), Plantae (Plants) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | From ~500 million years ago (Cambrian Period) to nearly the present day. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | c8ba2098-74e5-4379-82dc-e83804b59e3f |
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