Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History Osteology Specimens

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Duke Lemur Center on Jul 17, 2025 Duke Lemur Center
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17 July 2025
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Description

This is a collection of prepared osteological specimens housed at the DLCMNH. The collection was founded by researchers interested in primate comparative anatomy. Most of the collection is comprised of primates, especially strepsirrhine primates that were once part of the Duke Lemur Center’s living collection. The collection also includes a diversity of non-primate mammals and other vertebrates. Some of the DLC strepsirrhines can be associated with life-history records.

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 148 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)
148
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
215

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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: e592ecfd-2c81-44e8-82cc-c54c69d8c805.  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
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Digital Collections Manager
Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History
Matt Borths
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History
Catherine Riddle
  • Curator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collections Manager
Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History
David Bloom
  • Programmer
VertNet
Amanda Mazza
  • Custodian Steward
Duke Lemur Center

Geographic Coverage

N/A

Bounding Coordinates South West [36.015, -78.919], North East [36.015, -78.919]

Taxonomic Coverage

This collection is mostly mammals, and mostly primates, but covers a range of other orders and classes including birds, reptiles, rodents, artiodactyls, and more.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves, Mammalia, Testudines
Order Hyracoidea, Didelphimorphia, Carnivora, Primate, Artiodactyla, Galliformes, Pholidota, Cingulata, Rodentia, Pilosa, Eulipotyphla, Scandentia, Primates
Family Mephitidae, Cheirogaleidae, Aotidae, Caviidae, Procyonidae, Tupaiidae, Lemuridae, Didelphidae, Procaviidae, Chlamyphoridae, Bovidae, Manidae, Atelidae, Heteromyidae, Canidae, Lorisidae, Hominidae, Soricidae, Phasianidae, Callitrichidae, Tarsiidae, Cebidae, Muridae, Galagidae, Mustelidae, Indriidae, Cercopithecidae, Dasypodidae, Megalonychidae

Collection Data

Collection Name Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History Osteology
Collection Identifier https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/a8a83dc3-4780-4504-8efb-e5482281c8c6

Additional Metadata

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Alternative Identifiers e592ecfd-2c81-44e8-82cc-c54c69d8c805
https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=dlcmnh_osteo