Grout Museum District Vertebrate Collection

Occurrence
Latest version published by Grout Museum District on Sep 5, 2025 Grout Museum District
Publication date:
5 September 2025
Published by:
Grout Museum District
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

The Grout Museum District Vertebrate Collection consists of vertebrate fossil and extant animal specimens in the Grout Museum District's natural history collection. Most of the specimens in this collection were collected by various people between 1932 to the present in the Iowan Surface Region of Iowa however a few of the specimens were collected elsewhere in the United States by Henry Grout.This collection is currently being digitized and this resource will be updated periodically.

Data Records

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Isaacson K, Erickson N (2025). Grout Museum District Vertebrate Collection. Version 1.1. Grout Museum District. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=gmd_vertebrates&v=1.1

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Grout Museum District. 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: d6e8755b-27fb-4bc4-952a-6c75a3383545.  Grout Museum District publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

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Occurrence

Contacts

Kent Isaacson
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collections Assistant
Grout Museum District
  • 503 South St.
50701 Waterloo
Iowa
US
  • +1 319-234-6357
Nicholas Erickson
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Registrar
Grout Museum District
  • 503 South St.
50701 Waterloo
Iowa
US
  • +1 319-234-6357
David Bloom

Geographic Coverage

Most of the the specimens in the Grout Museum District's vertebrate collection come from the Iowan Surface Region located in the state of Iowa, however some of the specimens came from other parts of the United States.

Bounding Coordinates South West [25.165, -124.98], North East [48.922, -66.445]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Osteichthyes

Temporal Coverage

Start Date 1981-01-01

Additional Metadata

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Maintenance Description This collection is currently being digitized and this resource will be updated periodically.
Alternative Identifiers https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=gmd_vertebrates