Description
The BYU Life Science Museum mammal collection houses more than 42,000 specimens with emphasis on the Great Basin (especially Utah and Nevada) and Mexico. The collection includes specimens that were formerly at Utah State University as well as a portion of the former University of Illinois Museum of Natural History collection (specimens from Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and Mexico). The collection also contains more than 10,000 ethanol-preserved tissues, 15,000 frozen tissues and more than 6,000 DNA archives from Great Basin and Mexican mammals. The BYU Life Science Museum was formerly known as the Monte L. Bean Museum.
Data Records
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 39,417 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.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Brigham Young University Life Science Museum (BYU) Mammal collection (Arctos)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Brigham Young University Life Science Museum. 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: 1da75725-1eb5-4e17-b586-ffad7b783987. Brigham Young University Life Science Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
The BYU mammal collection houses more than 42,000 specimens with global coverage, but an emphasis on the Great Basin (especially Utah and Nevada) and Mexico.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Mammalia |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Brigham Young University Life Science Museum (BYU) Mammal Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | BYU:Mamm |
| Parent Collection Identifier | BYU |
Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 1da75725-1eb5-4e17-b586-ffad7b783987 |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=byu_mamm |