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Auburn University Museum of Natural History Entomology
The AUMNH Entomology Collection was historically the Auburn University Entomology Museum (AUEM). Our collection of roughly half a million specimens has its strengths in: Formicidae, Chrysomelidae, Orthoptera, Simuliidae, and Siphonaptera of Alabama; Tabanidae, Scale Insects, and Ceratopogonidae. The geographic scope of our holdings extend beyond the Southeastern United States and reflects research interests of previous and current curators and affiliated persons.
Darwin Core Archive of Auburn University Museum of Natural History Entomology
Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Traub Flea Collection Occurrence Data, Part 1
This dataset is a portion of the occurrence data records that were captured from the Robert Traub flea collection notebooks. This flea collection is housed in the Section of Invertebrate Zoology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Darwin Core Archive of Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Traub Flea Collection Occurrence Data, Part 1
University of California Riverside, Entomology Research Museum
Among the many strengths of UCR's collection are its holdings of native bees and parasitic Hymenoptera, as well as the families Asilidae, Bombyliidae, and Sciomyzidae (Diptera), Coccinellidae, Staphylinidae, and Meloidae (Coleoptera), Aphididae and Miridae (Hemiptera), and the order Thysanoptera. Of particular interest is its large collection of immature insects (the work of the late L.D. Anderson), and an enormous voucher collection from a 10-year faunistic survey of the Boyd Deep Canyon Research Center, a substantial portion of which is now databased. Our holdings, of roughly 4 million specimens (placing it among the 20 largest insect collections in North America), include primarily terrestrial insects from Southern California and Arizona, with strong representations of Mexican insects (primarily Baja California and Sonora), and various other parts of the world including Thailand, Brazil, Honduras, Russia, India, and Australia.
Darwin Core Archive of University of California Riverside, Entomology Research Museum
The SDSM Vertebrate Paleontology Collection began in the late 19th century with collections of fossil fauna from the nearby White River Badlands and Western Interior Seaway exposures. Major collections include, but are not limited to, marine vertebrates and associated fauna from the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, terrestrial vertebrates (including dinosaurs) from Jurassic and Cretaceous sites, extensive holdings from the White River Badlands of South Dakota and Nebraska (late Eocene to mid-Oligocene), and late Tertiary to Quaternary collections from the region, including mammoths and other Pleistocene vertebrates.
Darwin Core Archive of SDSM Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
MCNH Museum of Cultural and Natural History Amphibian Collection
The Natural History collections at Central Michigan University’s Museum of Cultural and Natural History consist of a wide range of representative species typically found in the Great Lakes region. The collection consists predominantly of Michigan vertebrates, with smaller invertebrate collections representation, amassed over the last 50 years. The vertebrate component consists of representative mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish, while the majority of the invertebrate collections are insects. These collections support the educational and research efforts of CMU students and faculty members, as well as any interested researchers. The mammal collection includes nearly all currently recognized species from Michigan, as well as complimentary species from throughout the United States. Most specimens are prepared as study skins, but there are several taxidermied mounts and skeletons available for examination.
Darwin Core Archive of MCNH Museum of Cultural and Natural History Amphibian Collection
Auburn University Museum of Natural History Invertebrates
The Auburn University Museum of Natural History Invertebrate Collection consists of a wide range of taxa from all over the world. Our geographic foci lie in the Southeast U.S., with the great biodiversity of crayfish in Alabama, and in Antarctica. We have had several donations from private collections which have increased the geographic scope of the collection, but most of our accessions have been through University research and affiliated persons. The invertebrate collection contains representatives of most non-molluscan phyla, with a concentration in crayfish, echinoderms, and annelids.
Darwin Core Archive of Auburn University Museum of Natural History Invertebrates
MCNH Museum of Cultural and Natural History Reptile Collection
The Natural History collections at Central Michigan University’s Museum of Cultural and Natural History consist of a wide range of representative species typically found in the Great Lakes region. The collection consists predominantly of Michigan vertebrates, with smaller invertebrate collections representation, amassed over the last 50 years. The vertebrate component consists of representative mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish, while the majority of the invertebrate collections are insects. These collections support the educational and research efforts of CMU students and faculty members, as well as any interested researchers. The reptile collection includes all currently recognized species from Michigan, as well as complimentary species from throughout the United States, with exemplars from Central America and the Caribbean Islands and a few additional international locations. Most specimens are stored in ethanol, but there are several dried specimens (e.g., turtle shells) and skeletal preps available for examination.
Darwin Core Archive of MCNH Museum of Cultural and Natural History Reptile Collection
The Botany department at Milwaukee Public Museum consists of a reference library, a research collection of 200,000 botanical specimens, a molecular biodiversity laboratory, microscopes, and work space for scientists to conduct their investigations. We call the collection space for our plant specimens a herbarium. MPM’s herbarium, known to the scientific community by its 3-letter code: MIL, is physically located on the top floor of the MPM building, immediately below the green roof and just behind the wall-mounted solar panel assembly. Since plants are nature's solar collectors, we think the herbarium is aptly situated. MPM's Botany Department is home to several significant plants collections, including our type specimens. If you have a botanical question, want some advice on plant identification, or to schedule a visit to the herbarium, contact one of the Botany Department Staff.
Darwin Core Archive of MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Herbarium
LSU Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium at Louisiana State University - Algae
Louisiana State University Herbarium Algal Collection: approximately 50 specimens mostly from USA.
Darwin Core Archive of LSU Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium at Louisiana State University - Algae
Auburn University Museum of Natural History Algae
Algae specimens held at the Freeman Herbarium (AUA) at the Auburn University Museum of Natural History.
Darwin Core Archive of Auburn University Museum of Natural History Algae
UMPC University of Montana Paleontology Center
Triassic Corals (Scleractinia) Cenozoic Mammals (Oligo-Miocene) Mississippian marine fauna (Bear Gulch Limestone) Cambrian Trilobites (Rocky Mountains/Continental Divide)
Darwin Core Archive of UMPC University of Montana Paleontology Center
Cornell University Insect Collection (CUIC)
The Cornell University Insect Collection serves as a permanent repository for scientifically valuable terrestrial arthropod specimens and associated data representing global insect diversity, species of economic importance, and vouchers from scientific studies. Starting with J.H. Comstock and H.H. Smith in the 1870’s, today’s CUIC is the result of efforts by a long line of Cornell entomologists. Our taxonomic breadth is based on the sequential additions to our holdings by professors, staff and students who have exhibited dedication to the development of their diverse research interests.The CUIC supports insect identification, systematics research, education, and public outreach for the global community.
Darwin Core Archive of Cornell University Insect Collection (CUIC)
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UTEX Culture Collection of Algae at The University of Texas Living Algae Holdings
The Culture Collection of Algae at The University of Texas at Austin (UTEX) is a successor to a collection of algal cultures begun in the 1920s by E.G. Pringsheim. Richard C. Starr studied with Pringsheim in 1953 at Cambridge, U.K, where he was provided nearly 400 strains of green algae to serve as the basis for the Indiana University Culture Collection of Algae (IUCC). This Collection of living algae was expanded, diversified, and then moved to its present site as UTEX in 1976. R. Starr served as Director of UTEX from its inception until 1998, after which Jerry Brand has served as Director. The IUCC was first funded by Indiana University and the Eli Lilly Corporation. Cultures of living algae were provided to requesters free of charge for pure research and educational purposes, at the discretion of the Director. NSF support was begun in approximately 1963, when the Collection became a public repository and a modest charge for cultures was implemented. The majority of funding for UTEX operational costs is obtained through the sales of products and services, but the Collection is also supported by the National Science Foundation and The University of Texas at Austin. UTEX houses approximately 3,000 distinct strains of living algae. Most strains are microscopic unicells, filaments, or colonial algae isolated from soil and freshwater. However, UTEX also maintains marine and macrophytic algal strains. The majority of strains are obligate photoautotrophs, but the Collection also houses a number of facultative and obligate heterotrophs. The green algae are disproportionately represented. However, all major taxa of algae are represented in the Collection. Over 85% of UTEX strains are unique to this collection. UTEX currently maintains 470 type species, approximately half of which are also maintained in one or more other publicly-accessible collections. All UTEX strains are unialgal. Approximately 20% are currently maintained axenically on agar slants. Others are cultured in liquid media, typically carrying small amounts of bacteria. All strains of algae maintained at UTEX are from natural sources. UTEX does not currently include patented or proprietary stock. This allows UTEX to send cultures to users with a minimum of legal restrictions. The UTEX web site (URL www.utex.org), updated weekly, includes a complete listing of available UTEX stock cultures, organized alphabetically by genus and numerically by accession number.
Darwin Core Archive of UTEX Culture Collection of Algae at The University of Texas Living Algae Holdings
Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Mollusks (CM-Mollusks)
The mollusk collection has been part of Carnegie Museum since it began in 1896, starting with the collection of George Clapp (honorary curator of malacology at Carnegie Museum). The current collection contains more than 150,000 lots (1.3 million specimens) from marine, freshwater, and land environments, from the mid-1800s to present, representing 6 of the 7 classes of mollusks, and with holdings from every continent and ocean, mostly from North America (75% of collection) and Europe (13% of collection). Taxonomic strengths are freshwater mussels (Unionoida) of North and South America (including the important collection of Arnold Ortmann, who literally wrote the book on North American Unionoida); terrestrial gastropods of North America, especially minute species (more specimens of the tiny Punctum minutissimum than all other museums combined) with the world’s largest collection of land snails from northern Appalachia; and the world’s largest collection of freshwater pill clams (Sphaeriidae, primarily from Victor Sterki and including more than 1000 type lots, still being cataloged). Many of our historical specimens of freshwater and terrestrial mollusks have some of the most detailed locality information compared to other museums. The specimen collection currently ranks 11th largest in USA. The current section head’s (curator of collections) expertise is land snails of North America.
Darwin Core Archive of Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Mollusks (CM-Mollusks)
AMNH Invertebrate Paleontology WIS-Cretaceous Research Collection
The dataset contains taxonomic, geographic and stratigraphic data for 13,149 specimen lots of Western Interior Seaway Cretaceous macrofossils housed at the American Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Division of Paleontology. Project ID: NSF # 1601891
Darwin Core Archive of AMNH Invertebrate Paleontology WIS-Cretaceous Research Collection
Fort Hays State University Sternberg Museum of Natural History - Vertebrate
Information about the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection at Fort Hays State University Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Darwin Core Archive of Fort Hays State University Sternberg Museum of Natural History - Vertebrate
UCR University of California Riverside Herbarium
The Herbarium at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) serves as an important source of information for the Southern California regional community as well as for botanists from around the world. UCR specimens and records are used by academic researchers, biological consulting firms, farmers and other individuals involved with plants as a business, research topic, management concern, or just a personal interest. One hundred percent of UCR specimens are databased and 93% are georeferenced (mappable in geographic information systems). Currently UCR is the 4th largest contributor to the Consortium of California Herbaria (c. 171,500 specimens contributed). UCR's oldest specimen was taken September 1859 on the Hayden Expedition, Powder River, Wyoming, but most are much more recent (e.g., >4,800 collected after 2015). The UCR Herbarium documents the abundance and distribution of species, including changes in range over time and the arrival of invasive species, the rediscovery of "extinct" species, and the collapse of native plant populations regionally. The UCR herbarium currently (Jan. 2018) houses over 273,000 vascular plant specimens. Of these, c. 229,500 are from the United States, of which c. 190,200 are from California. Mexico is represented by c. 38,300 specimens. The rest of the specimens are miscellaneous collections from other areas of the Western Hemisphere from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. UCR is a general collection, but with particularly strong holdings of Juniperus, Triticeae (B. L. Johnson & J. G. Waines collection of Triticum and relatives), and Phaseolus. It is one of the strongest herbaria for the flora of Southern California and is also very strong on the flora of western Mexico. A detailed overview of the collection is available on our summary web page (http://www.herbarium.ucr.edu/Summary.html).
Darwin Core Archive of UCR University of California Riverside Herbarium
HBOI Marine Biomedical and Biotechnology Reference Collection (MBRC)
The HBOI Marine Biomedical and Biotechnology Reference Collection (MBRC) has archived over 35,000 marine and freshwater specimens from all over the world. The collections began in 1984, were made to depths of 900 m by a multitude of methods, and include almost every marine invertebrate and algal phylum, as well as geological specimens. Users can access taxonomic, habitat, and location data as well as images and videos for thousands of specimens.
Darwin Core Archive of HBOI Marine Biomedical and Biotechnology Reference Collection (MBRC)
BMSM Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
Part of The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum's mission is to promote collection-based research on shells and mollusks, with emphasis on Southwest Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The Shell Museum assists scholars and citizen scientists from around the world by answering questions, providing interlibrary loans, and by offering both physical and Web access to our extensive shell collection, when needed. Our Science Director, Dr. José H. Leal, is a leading malacologist and also the Editor-in-Chief of The Nautilus, a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles on diverse aspects of the biology, ecology, and systematics of mollusks.
Darwin Core Archive of BMSM Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum
Aggregated occurrence records of the federally endangered Poweshiek skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek)
We created a dataset to document all known occurrence data for the Federally Endangered Poweshiek skipperling butterfly [Oarisma poweshiek (Parker, 1870; Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)]. The Poweshiek skipperling was a historically common species in prairie systems across the upper Midwest, United States, and Manitoba, Canada. Rapid declines have reduced the number of verified extant sites to six. Aggregating and curating Poweshiek skipperling occurrence records documents and preserves all known distributional data, which can be used to address questions related to Poweshiek skipperling conservation, ecology, and biogeography. Over 3500 occurrence records were aggregated over a temporal coverage of 1872 to present. Occurrence records were obtained from over 35 data providers in the conservation and natural history collection community using both “HumanObservation” and “PreservedSpecimen” as an acceptable basisOfRecord. Data were obtained in different formats and with differing degrees of quality control. During the data aggregation and cleaning process, we transcribed specimen label data, georeferenced occurrences, adopted a controlled vocabulary, removed duplicates, and standardized formatting. We examined the dataset for inconsistencies with known Poweshiek skipperling biogeography and phenology, and we verified or removed inconsistencies by working with the original data providers. In total, 12 occurrence records were removed because we identified them to be the western congener Oarisma garita (Reakirt, 1866). This resulting dataset enhances the permanency of Poweshiek skipperling occurrence data in a standardized format.
Darwin Core Archive of Aggregated occurrence records of the federally endangered Poweshiek skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek)
CMC Cincinnati Museum Center Vertebrate Paleontology
The Vertebrate Paleontology Collection of Cincinnati Museum Center is maintained to supplement and complement the fossil vertebrate collections of the world, and to advance both the mission of Cincinnati Museum Center and the science of vertebrate paleontology. The collection is the region's largest and most significant and serves as a major research and educational resource. It furthermore preserves a unique natural heritage as part of the public domain. The Vertebrate Paleontology Department uses the collection for research and, in close cooperation with other Museum staff, to develop educational programs and exhibits. The collection allows the Museum to play an active role in the vertebrate paleontological community by encouraging and facilitating research and exhibitions, and enhances the Department’s ability to provide professional services to, and scholarly interaction with, colleagues and students. The collection is particularly strong in local Pleistocene and Holocene fossils, including material from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky (the birthplace of American vertebrate paleontology), and microvertebrate and other remains from Sheriden Pit (Wyandot County, Ohio). Growing strengths include collections of the Devonian and Pennsylvanian of Ohio, the Mississippian of Kentucky, the marine Triassic of Nevada, the marine Cretaceous of Kansas, and the continental Mesozoic of the US Western Interior, particularly from the Morrison and Hell Creek formations. The acquisition of the University of Minnesota collection has added many microvertebrates from Montana’s Bug Creek Anthills and nearby localities, as well as other historic vertebrate fossil specimens.
Darwin Core Archive of CMC Cincinnati Museum Center Vertebrate Paleontology
Ornithology Collection - Natural History Museum of the UPR-RP
The Ornithology collection of the NHM UPR-RP contains 392 specimens preserved for scientific use and outreach activities. The collection includes whole animals preserved in alcohol, whole skins, and taxidermy mounts. Collection records consist mainly of specimens from Puerto Rico and include specimens from North America, South America, and Asia with the oldest record dating back to 1937.
Darwin Core Archive of Ornithology Collection - Natural History Museum of the UPR-RP
Fort Hays State University Sternberg Museum of Natural History - Invertebrate
Information about the Invertebrate Paleontology Collection at Fort Hays State University Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Darwin Core Archive of Fort Hays State University Sternberg Museum of Natural History - Invertebrate
University of Wyoming, Geological Museum, Collection of Fossil Vertebrates - Fossil Vertebrates
The Collection of Fossil Vertebrates represents an integral research and teaching component of the Department of Geology and Geophysics. The collection is a nationally recognized, public scientific resource that emphasizes the late Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossil record of Wyoming's Laramide basins and High Plains. The collection has roots that extend back to 1887, when The University of Wyoming's Geological Museum was founded; it was led by early curators William H. Reed and Wilbur C. Knight. Since then, the collection has grown into one of the most important for research on the geological and biological history of the Rocky Mountain region.
Darwin Core Archive of University of Wyoming, Geological Museum, Collection of Fossil Vertebrates - Fossil Vertebrates
Science Museum of Minnesota Paleontology Collection
The Science Museum of Minnesota’s paleontology collection spans more than 2 billion years of life on Earth. Much of the material was found in Minnesota, including taxa ranging from stromatolites to mammoths. Other sizable collections originate from the Jurassic of Wyoming, the Cretaceous of Montana, and the Paleocene of North Dakota. The collection also includes a fair amount of material from the Cretaceous of Alberta, the Oligocene Badlands of the Great Plains, and the Neogene of South Carolina. Numerous other smaller collections contribute to an overall paleontology collection with a rich taxonomic diversity, including large numbers of fossil plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates.
Darwin Core Archive of Science Museum of Minnesota Paleontology Collection
MUGM Miami University Invertebrate Paleontology Collection
The Invertebrate Paleontology collection of Miami University’s Karl E. Limper Geology Museum are maintained to supplement and complement the major invertebrate fossil collections in North American museums and universities. This collection comprises over 12,000 specimen lots of Late Ordovician marine invertebrate fossils from southwestern Ohio, southeastern Indiana, and north-central Kentucky. Most of these specimens were collected by William H. Shideler and later Miami University paleontologists, but the collection also includes specimens collected by 19th Century avocational paleontologists.
Occurrence; Fossil invertebrates; Porifera; Cnidaria; Bryozoa; Brachiopoda; Mollusca; Cephalopoda; Nautiloidea; Ammonoidea; Gastropoda; Bivalvia; Arthropoda; Trilobita; Echinodermata; Crinoidea; Echinoidea; Edrioasteroidea; Ichnotaxon; Specimen
Darwin Core Archive of MUGM Miami University Invertebrate Paleontology Collection
MCNH Museum of Cultural and Natural History Bird Collection
The Natural History collections at Central Michigan University’s Museum of Cultural and Natural History consist of a wide range of representative species typically found in the Great Lakes region. The collection consists predominantly of Michigan vertebrates, with smaller invertebrate collections representation, amassed over the last 50 years. The vertebrate component consists of representative mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish, while the majority of the invertebrate collections are insects. These collections support the educational and research efforts of CMU students and faculty members, as well as any interested researchers.
Darwin Core Archive of MCNH Museum of Cultural and Natural History Bird Collection
The Worcester Society of Natural History d.b.a. EcoTarium was founded in 1825 as the Worcester Lyceum of Natural History and is the second oldest natural history collecting organization in the United States. The EcoTarium’s collection contains approximately 55,000 pieces. The scope of the EcoTarium’s collection is wide ranging including taxa from herpetology to entomology with concentrations in New England, but also containing specimens from around the world. The majority pieces in the collection were collected between 1870 and 1940. The majority of the Museum’s ornithology collection is comprised of specimens from the Thayer Ornithological Collection accessioned in 1967. The Thayer Ornithological Collection was collected by renowned ornithologist John Eliot Thayer for his personal Museum in Lancaster, Massachusetts from roughly 1880 until his death in 1933. The collection had a world geographic focus and contains males, females, and juveniles of most species represented as well as many endangered and extinct specimens. The Thayer specimens held at the Museum are all mounts, study skins from this same collection are held at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Darwin Core Archive of ECOT EcoTarium Ornithology Collection
Auburn University Museum of Natural History Herpetology Voucher Collections
The amphibian and reptile collections at Auburn University include ca. 40,000 specimens. The collections primarily are stored in alcohol, but include extensive skeletal materials (primarily turtles), cleared and stained specimens, amphibian larvae, eggs, and digital records (photograph, sound, and video files).
Darwin Core Archive of Auburn University Museum of Natural History Herpetology Voucher Collections
MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Invertebrate Zoology Collection
The Milwaukee Public Museum Invertebrate Zoology Collection numbers about 800,000 specimens of which 70% are insects and 30% are other invertebrate groups encompassing a broad diversity of animals (52 zoological classes.) Lepidoptera and Coleoptera comprise the largest portions of the insect collections, and Mollusca and Crustacea the largest collections of other invertebrates. Special insect collections include the Type Collection (about 60 holotypes and 55 syntypes) of various orders, tropical Lepidoptera and gynandromorphs from James R. Neidhoefer, a worldwide collection of Sphingidae from William E. Sieker, the Albert Schwartz collection of West Indies Lepidoptera, determined Costa Rican cacao-pollinating midges (Ceratopogonidae and Cecidomyiidae) from Allen M. Young’s research. Other significant invertebrate collections include a comprehensive survey of WI crayfishes made by the WI Department of Natural Resources, Horton H. Hobbs III and Joan P. Jass, the Harold Mathiak collection of WI freshwater unionids, and the WI arachnid collection, including the historically important George W. and Elizabeth G. Peckham Collection of jumping spiders. A more detailed description is available at http://www.mpm.edu/research-collections/invertebrate-zoology/collections-overview. For further information or loans, please contact Collection Manager Julia Colby (colby@mpm.edu).
Darwin Core Archive of MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Invertebrate Zoology Collection
Darwin Core Archive of Oklahoma Vascular Plants Database
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County's Invertebrate Paleontology collection (LACMIP) is the fifth largest of its kind in the country, with an estimated 6-7 million specimens. These collections span the Phanerozoic and represent the world’s largest collection of Cretaceous-Cenozoic mollusks from the Pacific Rim. The collection has grown through a century of research by NHM staff, but has also brought together important former collections from the California Institute of Technology, California State University Northridge, University of California Los Angeles, and University of Southern California.
Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic
Darwin Core Archive of LACM Invertebrate Paleontology
MCNH Museum of Cultural and Natural History Mammals Collection
Darwin Core Archive of MCNH Museum of Cultural and Natural History Mammals Collection
Invertebrate Collections include specimens from nearly every taxon of invertebrate animal. Major collections include, but are not limited to, mollusks and arthropods of the Cretaceous Western Interior, insects of the Western Interior Cenozoic, Cenozoic marine mollusks of the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains as well as the Paris Basin, worldwide marine and freshwater Recent mollusks, and Gulf Coast Tertiary Foraminifera.
Darwin Core Archive of SDSM Invertebrate Collections
BRFC Black Rock Forest Consortium Herbarium
The Consortium possesses a herbarium collection of 623 mounted and labeled specimens, almost exclusively collected from the Forest by Kerry Barringer and Steven Clemants between 1990 and 1998, and used to complete a comprehensive list of all the vascular flora existing within the Forest (Barringer, K. and S. E. Clemants. 2003. The vascular flora of Black Rock Forest, Cornwall, New York. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 130(4): 292-308). The collection also includes some specimens collected from the nearby West Point Military Reservation by Steven Clemants, and a few specimens from other locations in the county, submitted by amateur collectors.
Darwin Core Archive of BRFC Black Rock Forest Consortium Herbarium
The UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity has ca. 300,000 specimens. The collections are worldwide in scope, with strengths in the following geographic regions: California; Ecuador; Baja California; the Antilles; the Pacific Islands; Mediterranean-climate regions. The following speciality areas are strong: range plants of California; vernal pool plants of California; alpine flora of western North America; poisonous and weedy plants of California; Euphorbiaceae; Poaceae; and the genera Quercus, Allium, Arctostaphylos, Atriplex, Capsicum, Clarkia, Eschscholzia, Lycianthes, Lycopersicon, Mimulus, Navarretia, Stephanomeria, Trifolium, Vitis. The following collectors are well-represented in our collections: B. G. Baldwin, F. Bowcutt, CNPS, B. Crampton, E. Dean, J. Ditomaso, E. L. Ekman, K. Esau, R. W. Gankin, L. Gottlieb, G. Helmkamp, G. F. Hrusa, P. B. Kennedy, H. Kennedy, A. T. Leiser, J. Major, B. J. McCaskill, H. Olmo, R. Preston, W. W. Robbins, D. Sanchez-Mata, M. Sanderson, J. Shepard, A. Solomeshch, G. L. Stebbins, D. Taylor, J. M. Tucker, E. C. Twisselmann, G. L. Webster
Darwin Core Archive of DAV UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity
Auburn University Museum of Natural History Fishes Voucher Collections
The Fish Collection at the Auburn University Museum of Natural History has fishes from all over the world. The collection has particularly large holdings of fishes from the Southeastern US and South America. Approximately 750,000 preserved specimens in more than 72,000 lots are cataloged in the collection.
Darwin Core Archive of Auburn University Museum of Natural History Fishes Voucher Collections
Gabon Biodiversity Collection is the largest zoological reference collection known in Central Africa. It consist of 123000 specimen including Mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians, plants and mainly arthropods. The collection of amphibian actually has over 500 specimen. Amphibian are under studied and our hope is to foster more research in the region by making available what is already available as information.
Darwin Core Archive of Gabon Biodiversity Collection Amphibian
The James H. McLean Mollusk Collection of the LACM Malacology Department is one of the largest recent mollusk collections in North America and the world … and is the largest of its kind on the Pacific Rim. The collection is predominantly dry material with lesser amounts of wet preserved specimens and includes material from all molluscan classes. It is worldwide in scope with an emphasis on the eastern Pacific Ocean (arctic Alaska to southern Chile) and includes an estimated 500,000 lots containing approximately 4.5 million specimens. Over 120,000 lots have been electronically captured, which includes over 2,300 type lots. Renowned acquired collections include those from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Alan Hancock Foundation at the University of Southern California (USC).
The myFOSSIL eMuseum is a community science project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Our mFeM on-line museum curates vouchered fossil specimens with the associated metadata. All occurrence records are curated by mFeM staff and experts from the community. The mission of mFeM is to promote public participation in science and to promote research and education in paleontology.
The University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Invertebrate Collection contains arthropods and molluscs from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
Darwin Core Archive of UPRM Invertebrate Collection
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Echinoderms Collection
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History - Invertebrate Zoology
The Invertebrate Zoology collection at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) houses 2.5 million specimens of several invertebrate taxa from worldwide localities. The collection specializes in phylum Mollusca, from both marine and terrestrial habitats. Roughly 20% of the collection is currently cataloged and available online. Please inquire further about groups that may be of interest, but are not found when searching our collection digitally.
Darwin Core Archive of Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History - Invertebrate Zoology
AMNH Invertebrate Paleontology Collection
The dataset contains taxonomic, geographic and stratigraphic data for 7000 specimen lots of Foraminifera and Ostracoda Microfossils housed at the American Museum of Natural History
Darwin Core Archive of AMNH Invertebrate Paleontology Collection
MCNH Museum of Cultural and Natural History Fish Collection
Darwin Core Archive of MCNH Museum of Cultural and Natural History Fish Collection
Primarily fossil cycadeoids from the Fossil Cycad site; plant fossils from the Kilgore Site; small regional herbarium.
Darwin Core Archive of SDSM Botany and Paleobotany Collections
CMC Cincinnati Museum Center Invertebrate Paleontology
The Invertebrate Paleontology Collection of the Cincinnati Museum Center is maintained to supplement and complement the major invertebrate fossil collections in North American museums and universities, and to advance both the mission of Cincinnati Museum Center and the science of invertebrate paleontology. The Invertebrate Paleontology Department uses the collection for research and, in close cooperation with other Museum staff, to develop educational programs and exhibits. The collection allows the Museum to play an active role in the invertebrate paleontological community by encouraging and facilitating research and exhibitions, and enhances the Department’s ability to provide professional services to, and scholarly interaction with, colleagues and students. The collection is particularly strong in Lower to Middle Paleozoic fossils of central North America. With a special emphasis on the Cincinnati Arch region of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, the Cincinnati Museum Center houses one of the best collections of Upper Ordovician fossils of the type Cincinnatian Series on national and international levels. To serve broader needs, the Invertebrate Department maintains collections representing historically and scientifically significant locations8 throughout the Phanerozoic Eon in North America, as well as notable locations around the world. The acquisition of the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State Geological Survey invertebrate collection further strengthens the collection geographically into the Upper Midwest, and stratigraphically into the Cambrian, with significant Ordovician components that complement our own local paleontology. The Invertebrate Department also houses a growing paleobotanical collection containing over 2,000 specimens, dominated by Paleozoic plants of the North American midcontinent. The dataset contains taxonomic, geographic, and stratigraphic data for over 90,000 specimen lots of major invertebrate phyla, including over 3,000 type specimens.
Darwin Core Archive of CMC Cincinnati Museum Center Invertebrate Paleontology
OC Parks – County of Orange Paleontological and Archaeological Collection
The County of Orange’s collection at the John D. Cooper Center currently contains over six million artifacts and fossils, and is growing every year as new finds are donated. As stewards of the collection, OC Parks is committed to the preservation, curation, and management of the fossils and artifacts within the County for the purpose of scientific research, outreach, and education. The rocks of Orange County contain the fossilized remains of plants and animals from every major time period since the Jurassic – over 180 million years of prehistory. At this point, only a small fraction of the collection has been inventoried - about 20,000 specimens out of an estimated 3,000,000 or more from over 1,000 localities. Notable collections include: Eocene terrestrial mammals, late Oligocene-early Miocene terrestrial mammals, and Miocene-Pliocene marine mammals.
Darwin Core Archive of OC Parks – County of Orange Paleontological and Archaeological Collection
Auburn University Museum of Natural History Mollusks
The Auburn University Museum of Natural History Mollusk Collection consists of a wide range of taxa from all over the world. Our geographic foci lie in the Southeast U.S., with the great biodiversity of freshwater mussels in Alabama, and in Antarctica. We also have a strong representation of Oceania from two private shell collections donated over the years. The majority of our accessions have been through University research and affiliated persons. The Mollusk Collection contains representatives of most molluskan groups, with a heavy concentration in unionids.
Darwin Core Archive of Auburn University Museum of Natural History Mollusks
AMNH Vertebrate Paleontology WIS-Fossil Fish, Turtle and Mosasaur Collection
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
Darwin Core Archive of AMNH Vertebrate Paleontology WIS-Fossil Fish, Turtle and Mosasaur Collection
The LACM Rancho La Brea collections hold 3-5 million fossil specimens covering ~50,000 years to near present day. They hold the world's largest collection of extinct megafauna and are particularly well known for the vast osteological collections of carnivores and birds. In addition, the collections include botany, arthropods, molluscs and small vertebrates, including fishes, amphibian, reptiles and mammals, as well as a few artifacts. The collections are all from the vicinity of the Rancho La Brea National Natural Landmark, mostly within the Los Angeles County park called Hancock Park.
Darwin Core Archive of LACM Rancho La Brea
LSUM Bernard Lowy Mycological Herbarium at Louisiana State University - Fungi
Louisiana State University Herbarium Lichen Collection: ca. 44,000 specimens, particularly from Louisiana, California, throughout North America, and worldwide through exchange and collections by Shirley C. Tucker.
Darwin Core Archive of LSUM Bernard Lowy Mycological Herbarium at Louisiana State University - Fungi
Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Paleobotany
The Paleobotany collection at Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CM) includes slightly over 16,000 cataloged specimens from all continents except Asia and that range in age from Precambrian to Late Cenozoic. There are 100 type specimens, of which 43 are holotypes. Fossil plants from the Late Paleozoic of the USA dominate the collection, and the majority of these are from Pennsylvania. The European portion of the collection is small but significant, and it includes fossil plants from numerous localities including Monte Bolca, Italy, for which CM has the largest holdings in the USA. Additionally, there are collections made by CM vertebrate paleontologists (e.g., Earl Douglass, J. LeRoy Kay) in conjunction with their collection of animal fossils from the western USA. Highlights are numerous fossils from various localities in the Paleogene Green River Formation of the western USA and two modest collections from Montana—Willow Creek, Fergus County (Late Cretaceous) and Bear Creek, Madison County (Cretaceous/Paleocene). The most recent additions to the collection are fossil plants from the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene of the Antarctic Peninsula. One caution in using this database is that many of the taxonomic identifications are antiquated and may need to be verified before use.
Darwin Core Archive of Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Paleobotany
The mission of the Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory is to conduct innovative, interdisciplinary research focused on the coastal and marine ecosystems of the Wider Caribbean that contribute to solving the ecological problems of the region by providing the scientific underpinnings for informed policy decisions. This dataset contains taxonomic and geographic data for the FSUCML Zoological Collection. The collection contains a variety of preserved specimens that were collected during research projects conducted by faculty, postdoctoral associates, graduate students, and undergraduate investigators from the FSUCML, from Florida State University, and from other universities throughout the world.
Darwin Core Archive of FSUCML Zoological Collections
The Dinosaur Institute (DI) houses the museum's collection of Mesozoic tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates), dating from 250 million years ago to 65.5 million years ago. This collection includes fossils of dinosaurs spanning the Mesozoic Era, as well as fossils of other tetrapods that lived alongside the dinosaurs, such as flying and marine reptiles, crocodiles, turtles, amphibians, and early mammals.
Darwin Core Archive of LACM Dinosaur Institute
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Museum of Geology and Paleontology Research Laboratory
Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory
Culture Collection of Algae at University of Texas at Austin
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
University of Montana Paleontology Center
Fort Hays Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Museum of Cultural and Natural History - Central Michigan University
University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Invertebrate Collection
Worcester Society of Natural History d.b.a. EcoTarium