UCM Vertebrate Observations Collection (Arctos)

Occurrence
Latest version published by University of Colorado Museum of Natural History on Oct 5, 2024 University of Colorado Museum of Natural History

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Description

The CU Museum of Natural History maintains an online archive of vertebrate observations. Deposited in this collection are images, audio recordings, field notes, and other documentation associated with non-vouchered vertebrate specimens. Taxonomic coverage includes observations for mammal, reptile and amphibian species, dating from 1950 to present. The geographic scope spans North America, with emphasis in Colorado, the southwest, and Mexico. Many reptiles cataloged in the UCM Observation collection represent range extensions and first county occurrence records. Also notable is a bat call library of over 200 recordings from Boulder County with accompanying field data.

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 325 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)
325
Multimedia 
19

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Versions

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University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Observations Collection

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 531ed831-f35f-4bd5-9d83-bf260fc8236d.  University of Colorado Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence

Contacts

Emily Braker
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Vertebrate Zoology Collections Manager
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 265 Bruce Curtis Building
80309 Boulder
COLORADO
US
303-492-8466
Laura Russell
  • Programmer
VertNet Programmer
David Bloom
  • Programmer
VertNet Coordinator
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
Dusty McDonald
  • Point Of Contact
Arctos Database Programmer
University of Alaska Museum
Christy McCain
  • Curator
Vertebrate Zoology Curator
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
UCB 265
80309 Boulder
CO
US
303-735-1016

Geographic Coverage

The geographic scope of UCM Vertebrate Observations is North America, with an emphasis in Colorado, the Southwestern United States, and Mexico.

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

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Class Mammalia, Amphibia, Reptilia

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1950 to present

Additional Metadata

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

Alternative Identifiers 531ed831-f35f-4bd5-9d83-bf260fc8236d
https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=ucm_obs