MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Paleobiology Collection

Patricia Coorough Burke1, Christopher Tyrrell1

1 Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W Wells St, 53233, Milwaukee, United States

Corresponding author(s): Patricia Coorough Burke (coorough@mpm.edu)

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Resource Citation

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

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?r=paleo

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 

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive MPM Milwaukee Public Museum Paleobiology Collection
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.mpm.edu/archive.do?r=paleo
Publication date of data: 2020-04-09
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-04-09
Hierarchy level: Dataset