Description
The University of Alaska Museum of the North Earth Sciences collection (UAMES) focuses on Alaskan fossils. It contains more than 65,000 specimens in two sub-collections: paleontology and geology (not databased yet). The paleontology collection houses both vertebrate and invertebrate specimens, ranging from Cambrian archaeocyathids to Quaternary mammals. Significantly, it is the largest collection of polar dinosaurs in the world with 10,000 specimens, primarily from the North Slope of Alaska. It also comprises a diverse assortment of Alaskan Quaternary mammals, including a large portion of the material collected throughout Alaska by Otto W. Geist between the late 1920s and the 1960s. The collection also contains a variety of paleobotanical specimens and a large collection of invertebrates (both micro- and macrofossils). It is home to 39 holotypes and 409 paratypes, most of which are invertebrates. The collection is growing through active research projects in different regions of Alaska and collaboration with state and federal agencies.
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 52,696 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
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University of Alaska Museum, Earth Sciences Collection
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9a201e2f-dada-4cb9-88c7-695e391aeb2f. University of Alaska Museum of the North publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
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Geographic Coverage
Geographic coverage of the UAM Earth Sciences Collection is primarily North America, with a focus on Cambrian to Quaternary, Alaska
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The UAM Earth Sciences Collection has especially strong coverage of Late Cretaceous Dinosauria and Quaternary Mammalia. General coverage includes Mammalia, Reptilia, Pinopsida, Archaeocyatha, Bivalvia, Anthozoa, Cephalopoda, Trilobita, Gastropoda, Aves, Insecta, Graptolithina, Vertebrata, Actinopterygii, Crinoidea, Ichnites, Granuloreticulosea, Magnoliopsida, Chondrichthyes, Conodonta, Echinoidea, Polychaeta, Osteichthyes, Scaphopoda, Radiolaria
| Class | Mammalia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1927-present |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 9a201e2f-dada-4cb9-88c7-695e391aeb2f |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=uam_es |