Description
The Field Museum’s fossil invertebrate collection started with the purchase of the Ward's Natural Science Establishment collection displayed during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The collection grew steadily over the years with the work of A.W. Slocom, S. K. Roy, E. S. Richardson and other Field Museum geologists plus numerous donations from other museums, universities, and the general public. In 1965 the Field Museum acquired the University of Chicago’s Walker Museum fossil invertebrates, which more than doubled the total number of specimens in the collection. Today there are an estimated 2 million specimens divided into ~320,000 specimen lots. The majority of the collection is arranged systematically divided by geologic periods. The remaining collection is organized stratigraphically.
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 77,865 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.
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Field Museum. 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: 6595e04b-13d2-4eac-933f-73786627b5a2. Field Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; fossil; invertebrate; Specimen
Contacts
- Point Of Contact
- Information System Specialist
- Metadata Provider ●
- User
- Collections Manager of Fossil Invertebrates
- Point Of Contact
- Technology Liaison to Science
- Curator
- Associate Curator
- Point Of Contact
- Information Systems Specialist
Geographic Coverage
Global
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
There are 15 fossil invertebrate phyla represented in the Field Museum's collections.
| Phylum | Porifera, Cnidaria, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Exhinodermata, Nemertea, Nematoda, Priapulida, Echiura, Annelida, Onychophora, Chaetognatha, Hemichordata |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 6595e04b-13d2-4eac-933f-73786627b5a2 |
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| https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/resource?r=fmnh-fossil-inverts |