Description
The UWYMV Mammal Collection is focused regionally on Wyoming and taxonomically on muskrats, deer mice, and bobcats. There are small series of a variety of mammals from throughout the Rocky Mountain region. The collection is currently undergoing rapid expansion.
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 6,619 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:
University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates. 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: f36b26ac-97d1-40f6-a9a0-484defff98e7. University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
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- Point Of Contact
Geographic Coverage
The UWYMV mammal collection has global coverage, but the majority of historic holdings are from Wyoming and the western and central United States.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Taxonomic coverage of the UWYMV mammal collection is historically focused on Nearctic families.
| Class | Mammalia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1903-present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates (UWYMV) Mammal specimens |
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| Collection Identifier | UWYMV:Mamm |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UWYMV |
Additional Metadata
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| Purpose | The mission of the University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates is to document and understand regional and global biodiversity through the acquisition and investigation of collections made by museum faculty, staff, and students to advance academic knowledge and public appreciation of the natural world |
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| Alternative Identifiers | f36b26ac-97d1-40f6-a9a0-484defff98e7 |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=uwymv_mamm |