Field Museum of Natural History (Geology) Fossil Invertebrates Collection

Kate Webbink1, Paul Mayer1, Scott Lidgard1, Laura Russell2

1 Field Museum of Natural History, ; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Kate Webbink (kwebbink@fieldmuseum.org), Paul Mayer (pmayer@fieldmuseum.org)

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Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, fossil, invertebrate, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/resource?r=fmnh-fossil-inverts

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: There are 15 fossil invertebrate phyla represented in the Field Museum's collections.
Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Porifera, Cnidaria, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Exhinodermata, Nemertea, Nematoda, Priapulida, Echiura, Annelida, Onychophora, Chaetognatha, Hemichordata

Spatial coverage

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

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Field Museum of Natural History (Geology) Fossil Invertebrates Collection
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/archive.do?r=fmnh-fossil-inverts
Publication date of data: 2019-11-20
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-06-28
Hierarchy level: Dataset