Cleveland Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Paleontology Collection

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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.

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Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH) Invertebrate Paleontology Collection

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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.