MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Paleobiology Collection
Latest version published by Milwaukee Public Museum on Apr 9, 2020
The Lower Paleozoic fossils have been acquired over the last 150 years. Invertebrate fossil collections are stored by age and geographic locations (about 50,000 records). All fossils from each locality are stored together rather than separated into taxonomic groups. The intention is to preserve the composition of entire faunas for studies of relative abundances of all species and analyses of community changes through time. Cambrian Fossils A large collection of Cambrian fossils of Wisconsin was amassed by Gilbert Raasch during the early half of the 20th century. These collections are impressive for their field documentation and extremely good locality data. Raasch studied the trilobite collections and produced several unfinished monographs. The Cambrian fossil collection includes about 45,000 specimens. Ordovician Fossils The Ordovician fossil collection numbers about 65,000 specimens. The large collection of Ordovician fossils from Wisconsin has received relatively little research attention to-date. There is also a substantial collection of Late Ordovician fossils from the Great Basin obtained by curator Dr. Peter Sheehan. Silurian Fossils Silurian fossils are the largest (more than 122,000 specimens) and most diverse collection with representation from early quarrying operations, substantial collections by Dr. Peter Sheehan in the Great Basin, and representative collections from Sweden. These are further supplemented by the Greene Museum collections at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Curator Rodney Watkins published important studies of Silurian faunal assemblages from Wisconsin.
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 19,950 records.
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| Data as a DwC-A file | download 19,950 records in English (1 MB) - Update frequency: irregular |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (7 KB) |
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Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Coorough Burke P (2020): MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Paleobiology Collection. v1.0. Milwaukee Public Museum. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?r=paleo&v=1.0
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Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
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| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?r=paleo |
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