Description
The Department of Invertebrate Paleontology collects, curates and studies fossil invertebrates. Its collection includes body fossils of animals such as sponges, bryozoans, corals, trilobites, crustaceans, insects, millipedes, brachiopods and mollusks, as well as trace fossils (ichnofossils) made by invertebrate animals. With more than 86,600 individual cataloged specimens, the collection’s strength is Ohio fossils, but it also includes specimens from elsewhere in North America, and from Europe, Asia and South America.
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 21,103 records.
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:
Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH) Invertebrate Paleontology Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Cleveland Museum of Natural History. 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: 53e9eca5-6831-4a43-a109-130feecfcd9c. Cleveland Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
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http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3446-8317
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Geographic Coverage
The collection’s strength is Ohio fossils, but it also includes specimens from elsewhere in North America, and from Europe, Asia and South America.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Phylum | Coelenterata, Mollusca, Graptolithina, Annelida, Conulariida, Echinodermata, Arthropoda, Porifera, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1920-current |
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| Living Time Period | Neoproterozoic (Ediacaran)-Recent |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 53e9eca5-6831-4a43-a109-130feecfcd9c |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=cmnh_invertpaleo |