Description
The University of Kansas invertebrate paleontology collection is ranked among the top 10 largest fossil invertebrate collections in the country and has over 850,000 fossil invertebrate and microfossil specimens from all over the world, including more than 8,200 type or figured specimens. These specimens have been used for research by paleontologists for over 120 years. The collection has taxonomic strengths in Cambrian trilobites from Antarctica and the Great Basin, United States; Upper Paleozoic invertebrates of the mid-continent; Cambrian soft-bodied faunas from Utah; Mesozoic cephalopods from the mid-continent. Research access to the collections is arranged on a case-by-case basis.
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 525,414 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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Invertebrate Paleontology Collection
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9654e4d4-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Specimen; Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator
- Bioinformatics Manager
- 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
- +1 (785) 864-3863
- Metadata Provider
- Collection Manager
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
- 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
- +01 (785) 864-2741
- Point Of Contact
- Collection Manager
- Lindley Hall
- +01 (785) 864-2747
Geographic Coverage
The collection has representatives from all continents. The strength of the collection lies in fossils from the mid-continent USA, in particular Kansas, in addition to specimens from Utah/the Great Basin, and Antarctica.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The collection includes representatives of all major invertebrate groups, with emphasis on the groups listed below, in addition to ichnofossils.
| Phylum | Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Porifera, Foraminifera, Cnidaria |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | KU Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology |
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| Collection Identifier | KUMIP |
| Parent Collection Identifier | KU |
| Specimen preservation methods | No treatment |
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Additional Metadata
http://biodiversity.ku.edu/research/university-kansas-biodiversity-institute-data-publication-and-use-norms
| Alternative Identifiers | 9654e4d4-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a |
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| http://ipt.nhm.ku.edu/resource?r=kubi_invp |