Description
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Invertebrate Paleontology Collection contains approximately 56,000+ specimens (11,000+ lots). Founded in the late 1800s, the collection consists of approximately 80% North Carolina material, although 40 states, 39 countries, and more than 1400 species are represented. The Invertebrate Paleontology Collection currently contains 17 holotype and 54 paratype specimens, a representative North Carolina and Southeast regional collection of Cenozoic and Mesozoic molluscan, echinoderm and crustacean fossils, along with a small but significant collection of Ediacaran body and trace fossils from south-central North Carolina. The Invertebrate Paleontology Collection houses individual specimens, slabs containing multiple specimens, microfossils, matrix samples, and all supporting legacy data.
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 12,506 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:
Kammerer C, Weaver P, Norton B (2016): NCSM Invertebrate Paleontology Collection. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm_invertpaleo. https://doi.org/10.36102/dwc.4
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. 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: bea28c6b-4282-4e0e-894d-7c65d050ffa9. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
- Head of Technology
- 11 West Jones Street
- 919.707.9947
- Point Of Contact
- Research Curator, Paleontology
- 11 West Jones Street
- 919.707.9939
Geographic Coverage
Coverage spans 36 countries across the globe
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Annelida, Archaeocyatha, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Cnidaria, Coelenterata, Echinodermata, Graptolithina, Hemichordata, Mollusca, Petalonamae, Porifera, Protista |
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Invertebrate Paleontology Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences |
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| Collection Identifier | NCSM-InvertPaleo |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not applicable |
Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | bea28c6b-4282-4e0e-894d-7c65d050ffa9 |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm_invertpaleo |