Description
The dataset contains taxonomic, geographic and stratigraphic data for 560 specimen lots of Western Interior Seaway Cretaceous vertebrate fossils housed at the American Museum of Natural History, Division of Paleontology. Project ID: NSF # 1601891
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 560 records.
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.
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is American Museum of Natural History. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
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Project Data
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| Title | Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Cretaceous World: Digitizing Fossils to Reconstruct Evolving Ecosystems in WIS |
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| Identifier | NSF # 1601891 |
| Funding | National Science Foundation |
| Study Area Description | The Vertebrate Paleontology Department at the American Museum of Natural History houses a large collection of fossil fishes, turtles, and mosasaurs from the Western Interior Seaway (WIS) in the United States Northern Great Plains. As part of an NSF TCN grant, this dataset is the result of a digitization effort that captured data of 560 specimen/lots and georeferenced 52 localities. |
The personnel involved in the project:
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | AMNH Invertebrate Paleontology-WIS Cretaceous Research Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | NSF # 1601891 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | AMNH-FF, FR |
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=amnh-vp-wis |
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