Description
With approximately 40,000 specimens, the Museum's mammal collection is representative of the Intermountain West and Great Basin regions of the United States. In addition to study skins, skeletal material and fluid preserved specimens, the collection holds a tissue library of more than 9,000 samples for use in studies of comparative genetics. There are 40 holotypes of subspecies from Utah.
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 45,771 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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Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH) Mammals Collection
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 06a00852-f764-4fb8-80d4-ca51f0918459. Natural History Museum of Utah (UMNH) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator of Vertebrate Zoology
- 301 Wakara Way
- +1 (801) 585-7759
- Metadata Provider
- Vertebrate Zoology Collections Manager
- 301 Wakara Way
- +1 (801) 585-7759
- Point Of Contact
- Arctos Database Programmer
Geographic Coverage
Although the collection includes material from throughout the world, nearly 90% of the specimens are from Utah and surrounding states reflecting the work of Stephen Durrant and students on regional mammals. Important historical material includes several thousand specimens from the Bonneville Basin, as well as collections from Glen Canyon, Flaming Gorge, and other locations within the Colorado drainage that have since been inundated by reservoirs. Recent research by staff has focused on resurveying of historical sites in the Great Basin, expanding the collection material from Utah and Nevada.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The collection includes 40 holotypes of Utah mammals and nearly 300 species from 52 families and 13 orders.
| Class | Mammalia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1890-01-01 / 2016-01-01 |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 06a00852-f764-4fb8-80d4-ca51f0918459 |
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