Condon Fossil Collection - Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History

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Description

The Department of Earth Sciences continues to foster a long-standing link with the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History. The personal fossil collection of Thomas Condon, first professor of Geology at UO, formed the nucleus of the Condon Fossil Collection, which currently numbers around 100,000 specimens.

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 60,516 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.

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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:

Davis E (2021): Condon Fossil Collection - Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History. v1.9. Museum of Natural and Cultural History - University of Oregon. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=uomnh-cfc&v=1.9

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Museum of Natural and Cultural History - University of Oregon. 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: 083a4342-39f7-4fe0-a03c-d14ab3b9c5e2. Museum of Natural and Cultural History - University of Oregon publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.