Description
Over 42,000 specimens, including 2 holotypes, are housed in the Sternberg Mammalogy Collection. The bulk of the collections are comprised of important voucher specimens and are invaluable resources for documenting the natural history of the Great Plains. The Sternberg Museum serves as a regional depository and tissue bank for many taxa. The Sternberg Mammalogy tissue bank contains over 2,000 preserved tissue samples, primarily from Kansas. These tissues are used extensively in molecular and DNA-based research, including systematics, phylogeography, and evolution. Tissue samples are available upon request.
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 39,529 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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Fort Hays Sternberg Museum Mammal Collection (FHSM-M)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Fort Hays Sternberg Museum of Natural History. 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: 84e6e5f8-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. Fort Hays Sternberg Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collections Manager
- 3000 Sternberg Drive
- +01 785-650-2447
- Curator
- Associate Curator
- 3000 Sternberg Drive
- 785-628-4269
Geographic Coverage
primarily from the Great Plains
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [13.56, -129.08], North East [55.22, -49.27] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Mammalia |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Fort Hays State University, Sternberg Museum of Natural History Mammal Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | FHSM-M |
| Parent Collection Identifier | not applicable |
| Curatorial Units | Between 42,000 and 43,000 specimens |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 84e6e5f8-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=fhsm_mammals |