Description
The University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge contains collections that rival those of the major university museums world-wide. They were designated in 1998 as being of outstanding historical and international importance. Much of the Museum’s material derives from the great collecting expeditions of the 19th century, which provided the first documentation of the fauna in many parts of the globe. The collections therefore provide essential baseline data against which to assess the current distribution and status of species, particularly in the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, South-East Asia, and the oceanic islands. The collections include individual specimens of exceptional historical significance including fine examples of the Dodo and Great Auk, skins of the extinct Tasmanian Wolf and many of Darwin’s specimens, some of which were collected from his voyage on the Beagle, and from his time studying at the University of Cambridge. Continuing research in the Museum provides a major source of new accessions. Recent examples include fossils of the earliest land vertebrates, molluscs from the excavation of the Channel Tunnel, which document climactic change in Europe over the past 10,000 years, and a rich variety of invertebrate fauna from the Seychelles.
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 65,917 records.
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
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
University Museum of Zoology Cambridge
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is The University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 717b3b87-0ebd-46b4-812b-4a29786798d9. The University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by National Biodiversity Network.
Keywords
Mammals; Birds; Fish; Early Tetrapods; Fossils; Reptiles; Amphibians; Skeletons; Skins; Spirit Specimens; Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
World wide coverage.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-85.16, -176.33], North East [84.92, -175.23] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1800-01-01 / 2012-06-11 |
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Project Data
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| Title | Mr |
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The personnel involved in the project:
- Custodian Steward
Collection Data
| Collection Name | University Museum of Zoology |
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| Collection Identifier | UMZC |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UMZC |
| Specimen preservation methods | Other |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 717b3b87-0ebd-46b4-812b-4a29786798d9 |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=umzc_vertebrates |