Description
The CUMV Mammal Collection includes approximately 11,500 skins, 11,770 skulls, 3,240 skeletons, and 530 fluid-preserved specimens. The collection is one of the largest of New York mammals, and has a strong representation of eastern North America taxa, containing all species of land mammals in the region. With only a few exceptions, all the genera of land mammals in the United States and Canada are represented. The collections are largely the work of former professor William J. Hamilton, Jr. and his students. One hundred and two of the 136 families (Wilson & Reed 1993) are represented in the collection. Specimens are present from all continents except Antarctica and more than 100 countries. The collections are particularly strong in North American material. Strongest holdings in this region are from New York, New Jersey, Colorado, California, and Pennsylvania but 48 of the 50 US states and 10 of the Canadian Provinces and Territories are represented.
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 22,551 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
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Mammal Collection
Rights
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 35720b3e-aded-4b83-b4f1-967f1d457d6a. Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Originator
- Curator of Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles
- 159 Sapsucker Woods Road
- +1 607-254-2162
- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collection Manager
- 159 Sapsucker Woods Road
- +1 607-254-2161
- Point Of Contact
- Curator of Birds & Mammals
- 159 Sapsucker Woods Road
- +1 607-254-1148
- Programmer
- VertNet Coordinator
Geographic Coverage
Specimens are present from all continents except Antarctica and more than 100 countries. The collections are particularly strong in North American material. Strongest holdings in this region are from New York, New Jersey, Colorado, California, and Pennsylvania but 48 of the 50 US states and 10 of the Canadian Provinces and Territories are represented.
| 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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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 35720b3e-aded-4b83-b4f1-967f1d457d6a |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=cumv_mamm |