VMNH SUP Paleontology Vertebrates and Paleobotony

Occurrence
Latest version published by Virginia Museum of Natural History on Dec 5, 2018 Virginia Museum of Natural History

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Description

The collections at the Virginia Museum of Natural History continue to grow, in keeping with the mission and purposes of the Museum: "to interpret Virginia's natural heritage within a global context in ways that are relevant to all the citizens of the Commonwealth, . . . to preserve elements of natural history, to serve as a permanent repository for specimens, especially those of Virginia origin, and to make the natural history material and its data accessible to researchers and the public." The collections provide the basis for both in-house research and research that extends nationally and internationally. There are more than more than More than 5,000 items and 955 unprocessed lots in the Vertebrate Fossils collection.

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 778 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.

Occurrence (core)
778
Multimedia 
854

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How to cite

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VMNH Vertebrate Paleontology Collection (VMNH)

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Virginia Museum of Natural History. 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: 4cb3d289-8d1e-4831-9c01-df02084b999a.  Virginia Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Lucy Treado
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Paleontology Technician
Virginia Museum of Natural History
  • 21 Starling Avenue
24112 Martinsville
VA
US
  • +01 276-634-4141 Ext. 4402
Haley Cartmell
  • Point Of Contact
  • Collections Manager
Virginia Museum of Natural History
  • 21 Starling Avenue
24112 Martinsville
VA
US
  • +01 276-634-4141 Ext. 4181
Alex Hastings
  • Curator
  • Assistant Curator of Paleontology
Virginia Museum of Natural History
  • 21 Starling Avenue
24112 Martinsville
VA
US
  • +01 276-634-4173
David Bloom
  • Programmer
  • Coordinator
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
  • Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley

Geographic Coverage

Virginia

Bounding Coordinates South West [36.22, -83.52], North East [39.53, -75.17]

Taxonomic Coverage

Eobalaenoptera harrisoni Mecistotrachelos apeoros (holotype and paratype - only four specimens known) Agnosphitys cromhallensis (holotype and paratypes; all known specimens housed at VMNH)

Class Actinopterygii, Amphibia, Elasmobranchii, Magnolipsida, Reptilia

Additional Metadata

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