Description
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.
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 12,962 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.
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:
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Museum of Geology Vertebrate Paleontology Collection (SDSM)
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Museum of Geology and Paleontology Research Laboratory. 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: 3144bbc8-9ebc-47fe-9f23-c575716eb357. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Museum of Geology and Paleontology Research Laboratory publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator
- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
- Associate Director
- 501 E. St. Joseph
- +01 605.394.2487
- Programmer
- Biodiversity Informatics Manager
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Vertebrate Paleontology |
|---|---|
| Parent Collection Identifier | SDSM |
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 3144bbc8-9ebc-47fe-9f23-c575716eb357 |
|---|---|
| https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=sdsm-vertpaleo |