COA Mammal Collection (Arctos)

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Description

The George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History, College of the Atlantic, houses extensive natural history collections that can be used by students, teachers, researchers, and artists. The Dorr Museum features dioramas of coastal Maine wildlife and a tide pool tank that houses a variety of live sea stars, hermit crabs, snails and other marine creatures. Visitors of all ages can touch, smell, listen and create while learning about the natural history of Maine. The Museum is housed in the original headquarters of Acadia National Park. All specimens and exhibits have been prepared by College of the Atlantic students as part of their academic experience.

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 187 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.

187

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How to cite

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George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History, College of the Atlantic

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History, College of the Atlantic. 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: 25685aee-445d-4e82-94c8-815ee2169644. George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History, College of the Atlantic publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.