Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History Egypt Collection

Occurrence Specimen
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Description

This is a collection of fossil specimens from the late Eocene to early Oligocene collected in the Fayyūm Depression, Egypt and fossil specimens from the early Miocene collected in Wādī al Maghārah, Egypt and housed at the DLCMNH at Duke University, North Carolina, USA. This collection was made by researchers in collaboration with the Egyptian Geological Museum and includes a diverse array of vertebrates including primates, non-primate mammals, reptiles, birds, and fish. The DLCMNH houses these delicate specimens in climate-controlled conditions to preserve them from fluctuations in temperature and humidity. Note that specimens collected under collaborative agreements between Egypt and Duke are accessioned at both the DLCMNH and the Cairo Geological Museum in Egypt. This data collection currently includes only material accessioned at the DLCMNH

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 449 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.

Occurrence (core)
449
Multimedia 
770

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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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Duke Lemur Center. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: daf625a1-154c-46e4-b9cf-873297690b65.  Duke Lemur Center publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by VertNet.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Kate Neely
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  • Digital Collections Manager
Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History
Matt Borths
  • Metadata Provider
  • Curator
Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History
Matthew Borths
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  • Curator
Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History
Catherine Riddle
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Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History
David Bloom
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Geographic Coverage

This collection contains specimens from localities in and around Al Fayyūm (also historically transliterated as Fayum, Faiyum, Fayoum, El Faiyūm, etc) and Wādī al Maghārah (Wadi Maghareh, Moghra, Moghara, Mogara, Mogra, etc) in Egypt.

Bounding Coordinates South West [29.4, 30], North East [29.6, 30.7]

Taxonomic Coverage

This first upload to GBIF is focused on primates, but the collection includes a range of other vertebrate groups including Aves, Reptilia, Rodentia, Artiodactyla, Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Hyaenodonta and more.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves, Reptilia, Mammalia, Amphibia
Order Hyracoidea, Testudines, Creodonta, Squamata, Hyaenodonta, Cimolesta, Artiodactyla, Proboscidea, Anura, Rodentia, Ciconiiformes, Primates
Family Varanidae, Diamantomyidae, Adapidae, Anthracotheriidae, Hyainailouridae, Hyaenodontidae, Thryonomyidae, Carettochelyidae, Trionychidae, Plesiopithecidae, Pantolestidae, Phiomyidae, Saghatheriidae, Gaudeamuridae, Titanohyracidae, Parapithecidae, Oligopithecidae, Galagidae, Palaeomastodontidae, Proteopithecidae, Teratodontidae, Geniohyidae, Propliopithecidae, Ciconiidae, Moeritheriidae

Collection Data

Collection Name Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History Egypt
Collection Identifier https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/e84edda1-db90-488d-b62f-a56966012d49

Additional Metadata

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Maintenance Description The first upload contains a subset of specimens from the Fayyūm and Wādī al Maghārah at the DLCMNH. The first upload includes all primate specimens that have associated media available for download on MorphoSource. This is just a small part of this expansive collection, and we plan to add additional taxa – including primate specimens that lack MorphoSource media and non-primate material – in the future.
Alternative Identifiers daf625a1-154c-46e4-b9cf-873297690b65
https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=dlcmnh_egypt