OC Parks – County of Orange Paleontological and Archaeological Collection

Occurrence
Latest version published on 3 December 2020
Publication date:
3 December 2020
Published by:
Ninguna organización
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

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.

Data Records

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Rights

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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.

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Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Will Gelnaw, Ph.D.
  • Originator
  • Paleontology Curator
Dr. John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center
US
Meena Madan
  • Originator
  • Paleontology Specialist
Dr. John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center
US
Justin Sikora
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact
Dr. John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center

Geographic Coverage

Orange County, California, USA

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

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=ocpc