Description
The Illinois State Museum's zoology collections contain over 140,000 specimens representing mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and mollusks. The museum's collections of vertebrate skeletons and fresh water mollusks are among the most extensive of their type in the U.S. They include large series for many Midwestern species and constitute one of the best comparative collections in the country for the identification of animal remains from archaeological, paleontological, and contemporary forensic contexts.
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 2,503 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
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How to cite
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Illinois State Museum
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Illinois State Museum. 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: 4b17f1c6-93a3-4e22-9822-1c7d829bb666. Illinois State Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Assistant Curator of Zoology
- 1011 E. Ash Street
- 217-785-4843
- Programmer
- Information Architect
Geographic Coverage
Collections include many Midwestern species and constitute one of the best comparative collections in the country for the identification of animal remains from archaeological, paleontological, and contemporary forensic contexts.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Amphibia (amphibians), Reptilia (reptiles) |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | ISM Herpetology |
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| Collection Identifier | Amphibians & Reptiles |
| Parent Collection Identifier | ISM |
Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 4b17f1c6-93a3-4e22-9822-1c7d829bb666 |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ism_herps |