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
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 2,080 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 (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
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: 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
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Geographic Coverage
The Paleobotany Collection spans 13 countries across the globe.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Kingdom | Plantae |
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| 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 |
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| Collection Identifier | NCSM-Paleobotany |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not applicable |
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 47881e45-febd-4622-b7a1-6efbce4fd7b3 |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm_paleobotany |