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.
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:
VMNH Vertebrate Paleontology Collection (VMNH)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
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
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Geographic Coverage
Virginia
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [36.22, -83.52], North East [39.53, -75.17] |
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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 |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=sup_vertpaleo |
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