Description
Ohio Wesleyan University is home to an extensive collection of fossils covering a wide range of geologic periods and taxa. Particularly well represented are Devonian invertebrate and fish fossils from the Olentangy Shale, Columbus Limestone, and Delaware Limestone of central Ohio. In addition, the university also houses a large collection of fossil plants from Mazon Creek, Illinois, a set of Ward’s fossil casts, purchased in 1869, and other fossils from the Burgess Shale, Green River Formation, and Achanarras Quarry. The fossil collection also includes specimens collected by Ferdinand V. Hayden during his 1871 expedition to Yellowstone and others by geologist James Hall.
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 378 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History Paleontology Collection
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4e61cc4a-6bfd-4816-b2b8-b066e21b6235. Ohio Wesleyan University Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Fish and invertebrate fossils from local Columbus and Delaware Limestone, fish fossils from Solnhofen, Green River, and the Old Red Sandstone of northern Scotland, invertebrates from the Burgess Shale, New York, and Indiana, and plant fossils from Mazon Creek. Collections include those from Reuben P. Mann from Ohio, James Hall from New York and Indiana, William Kepler from Ohio, and Ferdinand V. Hayden's 1871 expedition to Yellowstone.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Annelida, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, Chordata, Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Hemichordata, Plantae, Protozoa
| Kingdom | Animalia, Plantae, Protozoa |
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| Phylum | Annelida, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, Chordata, Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Hemichordata |
Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1856-Present |
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| Living Time Period | Cambrian-Quaternary |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Ohio Wesleyan University Paleontology Specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/OWU:ES |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OWU |
Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Purpose | Fossils of Ohio and elsewhere |
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| Alternative Identifiers | OWUM |
| 4e61cc4a-6bfd-4816-b2b8-b066e21b6235 | |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=owu_es |