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VMNH SVDM Vertebrate Paleontology

Specimen Records: 3,781
Media Records: 3,678
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2020-11-29

The collections at the Virginia Museum of Natural History continue to grow, in keeping with the mission and purposes of the Museum: "to interpret Virginia's natural heritage within a global context in ways that are relevant to all the citizens of the Commonwealth, . . . to preserve elements of natural history, to serve as a permanent repository for specimens, especially those of Virginia origin, and to make the natural history material and its data accessible to researchers and the public." The collections provide the basis for both in-house research and research that extends nationally and internationally. There are more than more than More than 5,000 items and 955 unprocessed lots in the Vertebrate Fossils collection.

Contacts

Name Lucy Treado
RolePaleontology Technician
EmailLucy.Treado@vmnh.virginia.gov
Name Lucy Treado
RolePaleontology Technician
EmailLucy.Treado@vmnh.virginia.gov
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczork
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Lucy Treado
RolePaleontology Technician
EmailLucy.Treado@vmnh.virginia.gov
Name Haley Cartmell
RoleCollections Manager
EmailHaley.Cartmell@vmnh.virginia.gov
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
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100
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47.448
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47.448
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47.448
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47.448
gbif_canonicalname_added  i1794
47.448
gbif_genericname_added  i1794
47.448
gbif_taxon_corrected  i1794
47.448
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i1637
43.295
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i888
23.486
dwc_multimedia_added  i828
21.899
taxon_match_failed  i702
18.567
gbif_vernacularname_added  i560
14.811
gbif_reference_added  i531
14.044
dwc_kingdom_added  i382
10.103
dwc_genus_added  i268
7.088
dwc_family_added  i233
6.162
dwc_family_replaced  i121
3.2
dwc_genus_replaced  i64
1.693
dwc_order_replaced  i48
1.27
dwc_class_replaced  i24
0.635
dwc_order_added  i12
0.317
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i10
0.264
dwc_phylum_replaced  i8
0.212
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i4
0.106
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