Author: William Mertz
Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic, Cretaceous Seas of California, Fossil Insect Collaborative

LACM Invertebrate Paleontology

Austin Hendy^1, William Mertz^1, Kevin Love^2

1 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd, 90007, Los Angeles, United States; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Austin Hendy (ahendy@nhm.org)William Mertz (wmertz@nhm.org)

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Resource Citation

Hendy A, Mertz W (2018): LACM Invertebrate Paleontology. v1.3. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=lacm-ip&v=1.3

Abstract

The LACM Invertebrate Paleontology collection is the fifth largest in the country, with an estimated 6-7 million specimens. These collections span the Phanerozoic, but 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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic, Cretaceous Seas of California, Fossil Insect Collaborative

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=lacm-ip

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Arthropoda, Mollusca, Echinodermata
Common names: arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms

Spatial coverage

General spatial 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.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Living time period: Phanerozoic
Living time period: Pleistocene
Living time period: Pliocene
Living time period: Cretaceous

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive LACM Invertebrate Paleontology
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.idigbio.org/archive.do?r=lacm-ip
Publication date of data: 2018-08-22
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-05-09
Hierarchy level: Dataset