Description
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.
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 103,943 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.
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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Hendy A, Hook J (2024). LACM Invertebrate Paleontology. Version 1.14. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=lacm-ip&v=1.14
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 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: f0a7ca6e-8da6-4629-97bd-0368705a4d6b. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Cretaceous Seas of California; Cretaceous World; Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic; Fossil Insect Collaborative; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collection Manager
- 900 Exposition Blvd
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9818-1158
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collections Manager
- 900 Exposition Blvd
- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
- 900 Exposition Blvd
- Point Of Contact
- Database Manager
- 900 Exposition Blvd
Geographic Coverage
The LACMIP collection has a global scope, with the most coverage in North America and Europe. Approximately 72% of collecting localities are in the United States, and the majority are from California.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Phylum | Arthropoda (arthropods), Mollusca (molluscs), Echinodermata (echinoderms) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | Phanerozoic |
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| Living Time Period | Pleistocene |
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| Living Time Period | Pliocene |
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| Living Time Period | Cretaceous |
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| Living Time Period | Oligocene |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | f0a7ca6e-8da6-4629-97bd-0368705a4d6b |
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| https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=lacm-ip |