Occurrence

Invertebrate Paleontology Division, Yale Peabody Museum

Latest version published by Yale University Peabody Museum on 29 March 2024 Yale University Peabody Museum
The Yale Peabody Museum's collection of invertebrate fossils is one of largest in the United States, in volume and in geographic, stratigraphic and taxonomic representation. The holdings of the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology represent more than 350,000 specimen lots, approximately 4 million individuals. A total of 35,000 are type specimens; about 4,500 are the basis of new species descriptions. Over 300,000 specimen lots are available in the online specimen index; all known type specimens are included.
Publication date:
29 March 2024
License:
CC0 1.0

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 554,367 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.

  • Occurrence (core)
    554367
  • Multimedia 
    302774

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Versions

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Yale University Peabody Museum. 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: 854bc2fc-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.  Yale University Peabody Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Larry Gall
Head, Computer Systems Office
Yale Peabody Museum
170 Whitney Avenue
06511 New Haven
CT
US
203-432-9892
http://www.peabody.yale.edu

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Susan Butts
Division of Invertebrate Paleontology
Yale Peabody Museum
170 Whitney Avenue
06511 New Haven
CT
US
203-432-3037
http://www.peabody.yale.edu

Who filled in the metadata:

Larry Gall
Head, Computer Systems Office
Yale Peabody Museum
170 Whitney Avenue
06511 New Haven
CT
US
203-432-9892
http://www.peabody.yale.edu

Who else was associated with the resource:

User
Larry Gall
Head, Computer Systems Office
Yale Peabody Museum
170 Whitney Avenue
06511 New Haven
CT
US
203-432-9892
http://www.peabody.yale.edu

Geographic Coverage

worldwide

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 854bc2fc-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
http://ipt.peabody.yale.edu/ipt/resource?r=ipt_ip