NCSM Vertebrate Paleontology Collection

Occurrence Specimen
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Description

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences' Vertebrate Paleontology collections contains approximately 63,000 specimens. Founded in the early 1900s, this collection consists of approximately 89% North Carolina material, although 31 states, 21 countries, and more than 405 genera are represented. The Vertebrate Paleontology Collection contains eight holotypes and twelve paratypes. The type collections include several different fish and sharks and one bird specimen. The most published on specimens in this collection are an Acrocanthosaurus atokensis which has been used in numerous phylogenetic studies of therapods and a Thescelosaurus specimen. The significant holding includes Late Triassic collections from North Carolina and Arizona, marine Cenozoic collections from North Carolina, and Cretaceous collections from North Carolina, Montana and Utah.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Kammerer C, Weaver P, Norton B (2018): NCSM Vertebrate Paleontology Collection. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm_vertpaleo.https://doi.org/10.36102/dwc.9

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: 5f1568db-5d5b-4597-9c66-dfbd0d7ddd7b.  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

Specimen; Occurrence

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 Vertebrate Paleontology Collection contains specimens from 5 countries including the United States, Brazil, Morocco, France, and Canada

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

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Amphibia, Aves, Chondrichthyes, Mammalia, Osteichthyes, Reptile, Reptilia, Tetrapod

Collection Data

Collection Name Vertebrate Paleontology Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Collection Identifier NCSM-VertPaleo
Parent Collection Identifier Not applicable

Additional Metadata

http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Alternative Identifiers 5f1568db-5d5b-4597-9c66-dfbd0d7ddd7b
10.15468/yksryn
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=ncsm_vertpaleo