NCSM Paleobotany Collection

Occurrence
Latest version published by North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences on Oct 3, 2019 North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences

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Description

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Paleobotany Collection contains approximately 1600 specimens. Founded in the early 1900s, the collection consists of approximately 21% North Carolina material as well as material from 25 states and 13 countries representing 109 genera. The Paleobotany Collection includes an important fossil wood collection from Big Bend National Park in Texas, Triassic plants from North Carolina, and Pennsylvanian age plants from the famous Mazon Creek locality in Illinois and the Pottsville Formation of Alabama.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Kammerer C, Weaver P, Norton B (2018): NCSM Paleobotany Collection. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm_paleobotany. https://doi.org/10.36102/dwc.6

Rights

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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: 47881e45-febd-4622-b7a1-6efbce4fd7b3.  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

Contacts

Ben Norton
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Head of Technology
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
  • 11 West Jones Street
27601 Raleigh
NC`
US
  • 919-707-9947
Christian Kammerer
  • Point Of Contact
  • Research Curator, Paleontology
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
  • 11 West Jones Street
27601 Raleigh
NC
US
  • 919.707.9939
Laura Russell
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Programmer
David Bloom
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Coordinator
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
  • Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley

Geographic Coverage

The Paleobotany Collection spans 13 countries across the globe.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Aguijoxylon, Angiosperms, Chlorophyta, Coniferophytes, Cyanobacteria, Cycadophyta, Ginkgophyta, Gymnospermopsida, Gymnosperms, Lycopsida, Pteridophyta, Pteridospermophyta, Sphenophyta, Lycophyta
Class Pinopsida, Ulvophyceae

Collection Data

Collection Name Paleobotany Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Collection Identifier NCSM-Paleobotany
Parent Collection Identifier Not applicable

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 47881e45-febd-4622-b7a1-6efbce4fd7b3
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm_paleobotany