Description
The University of New Mexico Earth Science Collections includes a variety of paleobiological, rock, and mineral specimens. The paleobiology collection (UNMP) includes over 25,000 specimens, primarily of marine invertebrate and terrestrial plant fossils. The collection spans the entire Phanerozoic Eon and the geographic scope is global, with an emphasis on specimens from New Mexico and the surrounding region. Many of these regional specimens are not well represented in other academic or national museum collections. Flora and fauna from the Carboniferous, Permian, and Cretaceous Periods are particularly well represented. The collection also includes more than 50 type specimens of Pennsylvanian and Early Cretaceous mollusks, and Pennsylvanian insects. Preservation of specimens is primarily as body or trace fossils. The petrologic and mineral collections consist of over 20,000 specimens spanning from the Proterozoic to Modern and containing notable specimens from the Southwest region and globally. These collections include unique petrologic collections from the Harding Pegmatite Mine, NM and Chuar Group from the Grand Canyon region. Preservation of specimens is primarily as hand samples, thin sections, and rock/mineral powders. In addition to research collections, both the paleobiology and rock/mineral divisions maintain a broad teaching collection spanning all major animal phyla, and major rock and mineral groups.
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 1,548 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
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Invertebrate Paleontology, Earth and Planetary Sciences (UNM EPS)
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of New Mexico Paleontology Collections (UNMP). 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: 2ea6a803-fcf8-4733-9171-23e3edc59624. University of New Mexico Paleontology Collections (UNMP) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
The UNM Earth Science collections are global in geographic scope. The paleobiology collections are particularly strong in regional collections flora and fauna from the Cretaceous and Carboniferous deposits in the southwestern US.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The UNM paleobiology collections are taxonomically broad and span all major animal phyla. Particular strengths include Paleozoic (~ 50% of specimens) and Mesozoic (~ 20%) mollusks (especially bivalves), arthropods, and brachiopods. The collection is also taxonomically diverse in flora from Carboniferous lagerstätten in North America.
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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| Phylum | Porifera (Sponges), Cnidaria (Coral), Bryozoa (Bryozoans), Brachiopoda (Brachiopods, Lampshells), Mollusca (Ammonites, Nautilus, Bivalves, Snails), Annelida (Polychaetes), Arthropoda (Trilobites, Euryterids, Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans), Echinodermata (Sea Stars, Sea Urchins), Hemichordata (Graptolites) |
Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1905 to Present |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 2ea6a803-fcf8-4733-9171-23e3edc59624 |
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