UF Florida Museum Paleobotany

Specimen Records: 83,521

Media Records: 0

iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-04-23

The Florida Museum's Paleobotanical Collection includes approximately 250,000 specimens. This is a conservative estimate that does not take into account the fact that an individual hand sample may contain more than one fossil of interest. In addition, the facility houses the John W. Hall paleobotanical collection (approximately 20,000 specimens) transferred from the University of Minnesota. The collection is international in scope, ranging from the Proterozoic to the Pleistocene, and including collections from more than 50 countries. Particular strengths of the collection are: Cretaceous of the US western interior, Cretaceous and Eocene of southeastern North America, Paleocene and Eocene of the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains region, Eocene and Oligocene of the Pacific northwest, and Pennsylvanian of Indiana and Illinois. Systematically the greatest strength of the collection is in Cretaceous-Tertiary angiosperms, which are represented by large numbers of well-preserved fruits and flowers as well as leaves and wood. A majority of publications generated by the collection have dealt with angiosperm systematics, but publications also have been generated on algae, fungi, lycopods, ferns, seed ferns, conifers, and insect mines and have been used to address questions of phylogeny, paleogeography, and paleoclimate. The type collection includes all Florida Museum paleobotanical specimens that have been cited in published literature, extending from the 1920's to the present. More than 280 publications are known to have cited specimens that now reside in the Florida Museum's paleobotanical collection (a list of these publications is available http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/paleobotany/publications). There are currently more than 5,000 hand specimens, 1,500 thin section, cuticle, or pollen/spore slides and SEM stubs, 6,595 negatives and polaroid prints of SEM images of fern spores housed in 19 cabinets. Organization is by year of publication and in the order of citation presented in the publications.

Contacts

Name	Steven Manchester
Role	Curator of Paleobotany
Email	steven@flmnh.ufl.edu

Name	Warren Brown
Role	IT Director
Email	netadmin@flmnh.ufl.edu

Name	OMT FLMNH
Role	none
Email	netadmin@flmnh.ufl.edu

Name	Steven Manchester
Role	Curator of Paleobotany
Email	steven@flmnh.ufl.edu

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.

Flag	Records With This Flag	(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added i	82741	99.066
dwc_continent_added i	82707	99.025
geopoint_datum_missing i	72159	86.396
dwc_datasetid_added i	16516	19.775
dwc_kingdom_added i	16516	19.775
dwc_parentnameusageid_added i	16516	19.775
dwc_taxonid_added i	16516	19.775
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added i	16516	19.775
dwc_taxonrank_added i	16516	19.775
gbif_canonicalname_added i	16516	19.775
gbif_genericname_added i	16516	19.775
gbif_taxon_corrected i	16516	19.775
dwc_phylum_added i	16283	19.496
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added i	16007	19.165
dwc_class_added i	15741	18.847
dwc_multimedia_added i	9430	11.291
taxon_match_failed i	9204	11.02
dwc_order_replaced i	8838	10.582
gbif_vernacularname_added i	8551	10.238
dwc_family_replaced i	8441	10.106
gbif_reference_added i	5941	7.113
dwc_specificepithet_replaced i	5623	6.732
geopoint_datum_error i	960	1.149
rev_geocode_eez i	917	1.098
dwc_genus_replaced i	503	0.602
dwc_originalnameusageid_added i	384	0.46
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added i	325	0.389
dwc_taxonremarks_added i	178	0.213
rev_geocode_mismatch i	170	0.204
dwc_kingdom_suspect i	107	0.128
rev_geocode_corrected i	65	0.078
rev_geocode_failure i	48	0.057
rev_geocode_lon_sign i	38	0.045
geopoint_bounds i	37	0.044
rev_geocode_both_sign i	25	0.03
geopoint_low_precision i	3	0.004
rev_geocode_flip i	2	0.002
dwc_genus_added i	1	0.001

Month of	Search	Download	Seen	Records Viewed
05 / 2023	912,067,625	13,432	252,476	217
06 / 2023	949,191,545	74,567	298,571	236
07 / 2023	879,967,696	304,014	228,183	185
08 / 2023	861,133,450	1,062	204,186	201
09 / 2023	1,097,120,669	150,284	492,401	347
10 / 2023	1,433,958,628	2,790,367	701,484	468
11 / 2023	1,229,664,014	235,254	610,752	960
12 / 2023	1,014,978,183	19,835	353,044	746
01 / 2024	1,598,437,898	22,555	683,359	363
02 / 2024	2,335,760,285	614,424	900,815	666
03 / 2024	2,531,020,552	11,020,783	630,711	1,674
04 / 2024	3,280,610,462	2,948,358	477,456	2,334
05 / 2024	13,781,390,414	7,865,015	1,227,844	7,901
06 / 2024	5,146,975,856	626,913	365,114	1,055
07 / 2024	3,000,194,743	2,803,503	615,344	798
08 / 2024	6,412,575,438	2,662,680	1,361,079	499
09 / 2024	5,680,469,949	220,508	1,144,200	335
10 / 2024	4,216,943,428	13,845,534	1,050,428	675
11 / 2024	5,127,361,515	1,920,525	1,208,041	8,246
12 / 2024	1,773,056,444	120	360,959	8,264
01 / 2025	4,682,306,292	1	1,076,639	4,233
02 / 2025	1,778,303,321	134,449	1,518,968	7,010
03 / 2025	1,928,810,848	1,674,216	1,615,660	7,483
04 / 2025	2,077,999,811	1,580,760	2,016,455	1,573
05 / 2025	1,641,223,124	62,924	1,350,171	2,346
06 / 2025	1,335,196,877	850,801	1,053,239	4,351
07 / 2025	356,723,644	134,671	256,090	392
08 / 2025	3,113,235,100	476	3,373,313	1,376
09 / 2025	2,944,917,734	65,501	2,940,673	2,253
10 / 2025	17,405,970,521	1,233,997	20,621,268	2,572
11 / 2025	21,158,480,968	2,330,937	23,880,121	3,827
12 / 2025	17,636,946,897	103,387	19,149,209	5,055
01 / 2026	6,193,106,595	628	6,183,748	2,275
02 / 2026	9,148,019,124	318,294	10,151,983	2,705
03 / 2026	9,925,673,649	4,044,875	11,192,197	7,286
04 / 2026	15,030,469,576	466,841	16,320,193	3,833
05 / 2026	219,391,453	0	237,867	145

{ "uuid": "0e162e0a-bf3e-4710-9357-44258ca12abb", "type": "recordsets", "etag": "4b6b47f739319981462d0a4ea2a32eb0c4742790", "data": { "eml_link": "https://ipt.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ipt/eml.do?r=ufpaleobotany", "contacts": [ { "first_name": "Steven", "last_name": "Manchester", "role": "Curator of Paleobotany", "email": "steven@flmnh.ufl.edu" }, { "first_name": "Warren", "last_name": "Brown", "role": "IT Director", "email": "netadmin@flmnh.ufl.edu" }, { "first_name": "OMT", "last_name": "FLMNH", "email": "netadmin@flmnh.ufl.edu" }, { "first_name": "Steven", "last_name": "Manchester", "role": "Curator of Paleobotany", "email": "steven@flmnh.ufl.edu" } ], "collection_name": "UF Florida Museum Paleobotany", "update": "2026-04-20T04:00:16", "ingest": true, "data_rights": "CC4 BY-NC", "link": "https://ipt.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ipt/archive.do?r=ufpaleobotany", "collection_description": "The Florida Museum's Paleobotanical Collection includes approximately 250,000 specimens. This is a conservative estimate that does not take into account the fact that an individual hand sample may contain more than one fossil of interest. In addition, the facility houses the John W. Hall paleobotanical collection (approximately 20,000 specimens) transferred from the University of Minnesota.\n\nThe collection is international in scope, ranging from the Proterozoic to the Pleistocene, and including collections from more than 50 countries. Particular strengths of the collection are: Cretaceous of the US western interior, Cretaceous and Eocene of southeastern North America, Paleocene and Eocene of the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains region, Eocene and Oligocene of the Pacific northwest, and Pennsylvanian of Indiana and Illinois. Systematically the greatest strength of the collection is in Cretaceous-Tertiary angiosperms, which are represented by large numbers of well-preserved fruits and flowers as well as leaves and wood. A majority of publications generated by the collection have dealt with angiosperm systematics, but publications also have been generated on algae, fungi, lycopods, ferns, seed ferns, conifers, and insect mines and have been used to address questions of phylogeny, paleogeography, and paleoclimate.\n\nThe type collection includes all Florida Museum paleobotanical specimens that have been cited in published literature, extending from the 1920's to the present. More than 280 publications are known to have cited specimens that now reside in the Florida Museum's paleobotanical collection (a list of these publications is available http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/paleobotany/publications). There are currently more than 5,000 hand specimens, 1,500 thin section, cuticle, or pollen/spore slides and SEM stubs, 6,595 negatives and polaroid prints of SEM images of fern spores housed in 19 cabinets. Organization is by year of publication and in the order of citation presented in the publications.", "other_guids": [], "institution_web_address": "", "id": "http://ipt.flmnh.ufl.edu:8080/ipt/resource?id=ufpaleobotany" }, "indexTerms": { "publisher": "350857a8-4940-4d02-ad42-49557f8006f1", "uuid": "0e162e0a-bf3e-4710-9357-44258ca12abb", "dqs": 0, "archivelink": "https://ipt.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ipt/archive.do?r=ufpaleobotany", "rights": "cc4 by-nc", "contacts": [ { "first_name": "Steven", "last_name": "Manchester", "role": "Curator of Paleobotany", "email": "steven@flmnh.ufl.edu" }, { "first_name": "Warren", "last_name": "Brown", "role": "IT Director", "email": "netadmin@flmnh.ufl.edu" }, { "first_name": "OMT", "last_name": "FLMNH", "email": "netadmin@flmnh.ufl.edu" }, { "first_name": "Steven", "last_name": "Manchester", "role": "Curator of Paleobotany", "email": "steven@flmnh.ufl.edu" } ], "indexData": { "idigbio:parent": "350857a8-4940-4d02-ad42-49557f8006f1", "eml_link": "https://ipt.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ipt/eml.do?r=ufpaleobotany", "contacts": [ { "first_name": "Steven", "last_name": "Manchester", "role": "Curator of Paleobotany", "email": "steven@flmnh.ufl.edu" }, { "first_name": "Warren", "last_name": "Brown", "role": "IT Director", "email": "netadmin@flmnh.ufl.edu" }, { "first_name": "OMT", "last_name": "FLMNH", "email": "netadmin@flmnh.ufl.edu" }, { "first_name": "Steven", "last_name": "Manchester", "role": "Curator of Paleobotany", "email": "steven@flmnh.ufl.edu" } ], "collection_name": "UF Florida Museum Paleobotany", "idigbio:uuid": "0e162e0a-bf3e-4710-9357-44258ca12abb", "idigbio:etag": "4b6b47f739319981462d0a4ea2a32eb0c4742790", "update": "2026-04-20T04:00:16", "ingest": true, "institution_web_address": "", "idigbio:siblings": {}, "idigbio:recordIds": [ "http://ipt.flmnh.ufl.edu:8080/ipt/resource?id=ufpaleobotany", "5f0d32a4-6902-481b-9694-6393ad40b973" ], "link": "https://ipt.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ipt/archive.do?r=ufpaleobotany", "idigbio:dateModified": "2026-04-20T04:13:46.649704", "collection_description": "The Florida Museum's Paleobotanical Collection includes approximately 250,000 specimens. This is a conservative estimate that does not take into account the fact that an individual hand sample may contain more than one fossil of interest. In addition, the facility houses the John W. Hall paleobotanical collection (approximately 20,000 specimens) transferred from the University of Minnesota.\n\nThe collection is international in scope, ranging from the Proterozoic to the Pleistocene, and including collections from more than 50 countries. Particular strengths of the collection are: Cretaceous of the US western interior, Cretaceous and Eocene of southeastern North America, Paleocene and Eocene of the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains region, Eocene and Oligocene of the Pacific northwest, and Pennsylvanian of Indiana and Illinois. Systematically the greatest strength of the collection is in Cretaceous-Tertiary angiosperms, which are represented by large numbers of well-preserved fruits and flowers as well as leaves and wood. A majority of publications generated by the collection have dealt with angiosperm systematics, but publications also have been generated on algae, fungi, lycopods, ferns, seed ferns, conifers, and insect mines and have been used to address questions of phylogeny, paleogeography, and paleoclimate.\n\nThe type collection includes all Florida Museum paleobotanical specimens that have been cited in published literature, extending from the 1920's to the present. More than 280 publications are known to have cited specimens that now reside in the Florida Museum's paleobotanical collection (a list of these publications is available http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/paleobotany/publications). There are currently more than 5,000 hand specimens, 1,500 thin section, cuticle, or pollen/spore slides and SEM stubs, 6,595 negatives and polaroid prints of SEM images of fern spores housed in 19 cabinets. Organization is by year of publication and in the order of citation presented in the publications.", "id": "http://ipt.flmnh.ufl.edu:8080/ipt/resource?id=ufpaleobotany", "other_guids": [], "data_rights": "CC4 BY-NC" }, "etag": "4b6b47f739319981462d0a4ea2a32eb0c4742790", "emllink": "https://ipt.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ipt/eml.do?r=ufpaleobotany", "recordids": [ "http://ipt.flmnh.ufl.edu:8080/ipt/resource?id=ufpaleobotany", "5f0d32a4-6902-481b-9694-6393ad40b973" ], "datemodified": "2026-04-20T04:13:46.649704+00:00", "name": "uf florida museum paleobotany" }, "attribution": {} }

Recordset

UF Florida Museum Paleobotany

Contacts