Description
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.
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 3,272 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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Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Science Museum of Minnesota. 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: ddef0a33-0165-4478-9871-1cf55060e36d. Science Museum of Minnesota publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
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Geographic Coverage
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| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=smm-paleo |
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