Mayborn Museum Bivalves Collection at Baylor University

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Description

The Bivalves Collection at the Mayborn Museum Complex consists of over 11,000 bivalves collected over a 90 year period, with more than 90% of the specimens from Texas localities. Notable specimens in the museum’s holdings include a Lampsilis satura collected in Louisiana in 1899.

Data Records

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Baylor University, Mayborn Museum Complex (BUMMC) Bivalves Collection

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Baylor University, Mayborn Museum Complex. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2494a4fe-a71c-44a2-9045-d34b713d79c0. Baylor University, Mayborn Museum Complex publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.