Field Museum of Natural History (Geology) Paleobotany Collection

Occurrence
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Description

The Paleobotany Collection spans 3.8 billion years of history but has its major strengths in the Late Paleozoic and Cretaceous-Paleogene. It includes hand specimens, mesofossils, cellulose acetate preparations of anatomically preserved plants, and both fossil and extant (comparative) palynological preparations.

Data Records

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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.

Occurrence (core)
82915
Multimedia 
36864

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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

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Keywords

Occurrence; palaeobotany; paleobotany; fossil; plant; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Kate Webbink
  • Originator
Information Systems Specialist
Field Museum of Natural History
Fabiany Herrera
  • Metadata Provider
Curator
Field Museum of Natural History
Sharon Grant
  • Point Of Contact
Technology Liaison to Science
Field Museum of Natural History
Ian Glasspool
  • Content Provider
Associate Researcher
Colby College
Ax Klymiuk
Associate Researcher

Geographic Coverage

Global

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

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 6fd297bb-888a-46a7-a870-1f5af1ab1616
https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/resource?r=fmnh-paleobotany