Vertebrate Paleontology Division, Yale Peabody Museum

Occurrence
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Description

The Division of Vertebrate Paleontology houses one of the most important vertebrate fossil collections in North America, totaling over 70,000 cataloged specimens. Staff and students of the Division undertake research in vertebrate systematics, evolution, and paleobiology. The Division supports field collecting programs in the Triassic of Arizona and Utah and across the K/T boundary in Montana and North Dakota.

Data Records

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Occurrence (core)
79822
Multimedia 
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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: 9643f840-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.  Yale University Peabody Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

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Contacts

Gary Motz
  • Originator
  • Head, Computer Systems Office
Yale Peabody Museum
  • 170 Whitney Avenue
06511 New Haven
CT
US
  • 203-436-1492
Vanessa Rhue
  • Point Of Contact
  • Division of Vertebrate Paleontology
Yale Peabody Museum
  • 170 Whitney Avenue
06511 New Haven
CT
US
  • 203-432-3748

Geographic Coverage

worldwide

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

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 9643f840-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
http://ipt.peabody.yale.edu/resource?r=ypm-vp