Occurrence

CMC Cincinnati Museum Center Invertebrate Paleontology

Latest version published by Cincinnati Museum Center on 09 September 2022 Cincinnati Museum Center
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 particularl... More
Publication date:
09 September 2022
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

Description

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.

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 72,416 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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Versions

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How to cite

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Cincinnati Museum Center Invertebrate Paleontology Collection (CMC IP)

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Cincinnati Museum Center. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 361d98ca-ba9d-4b85-a64f-7db8fb35c6a9.  Cincinnati Museum Center publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.

Keywords

Occurrence; Fossil invertebrates; Protista; Porifera; Cnidaria; Bryozoa; Brachiopoda; Mollusca; Cephalopoda; Nautiloidea; Ammonoidea; Gastropoda; Bivalvia; Arthropoda; Trilobita; Echinodermata; Crinoidea; Echinoidea; Edrioasteroidea; Occurrence; Ichnotaxon; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Brenda Hunda
Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology
1301 Western Avenue
45203 Cincinnati
Ohio
US
+01 (513) 455-7160

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Brenda Hunda
Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology
1301 Western Avenue
45203 Cincinnati
Ohio
US
+01 (513) 455-7160
Anne Kling
Manager, Collection Databases and Websites
1301 Western Avenue
45203 Cincinnati
Ohio
US
+01 (513) 287-7070
Cameron Schwalbach
Paleontology Collections Manager
1301 Western Avenue
45203 Cincinnati
Ohio
US

Who filled in the metadata:

Brenda Hunda
Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology
1301 Western Avenue
45203 Cincinnati
Ohio
US
+01 (513) 455-7160
Anne Kling
Manager, Collection Databases and Websites
1301 Western Avenue
45203 Cincinnati
Ohio
US
+01 (513) 287-7070
Glenn Storrs
Assistant Vice President of Collections and Research & the Withrow Farny Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology
1301 Western Avenue
45203 Cincinnati
Ohio
US
+01 (513) 455-7164

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
Joanna McCaffrey
Biodiversity Informatics Manager

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 361d98ca-ba9d-4b85-a64f-7db8fb35c6a9
https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=cmc-paleo