Description
Mammal study skins, skulls, and associated parts from the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History, UC Santa Cruz.
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 630 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:
Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History (UCSC), University of California, Santa Cruz Mammal Specimens (Arctos)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Kenneth S. Norris Center for 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: 3abe0ed3-371f-49ab-bc4f-ac1887e04983. Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Generally focused on North America, especially the Western United States. Occasional representatives outside of North America are also present.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Most families of mammals from North America are present. Occasional important families from outside North America are sparsely represented.
| Class | Mammalia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1898 to present |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 3abe0ed3-371f-49ab-bc4f-ac1887e04983 |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=ucsc_mamm |