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 327 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:
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Vertebrate Observations Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Colorado 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: 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
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Vertebrate Zoology Collections Manager
- University of Colorado Boulder, UCB 265 Bruce Curtis Building
- 303-492-8466
- Point Of Contact
- Arctos Database Programmer
- Curator
- Vertebrate Zoology Curator
- UCB 265
- 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] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Class | Mammalia, Amphibia, Reptilia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1950 to present |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 531ed831-f35f-4bd5-9d83-bf260fc8236d |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=ucm_obs |