UF Florida Museum Paleobotany

Specimen Records: 77,039

Media Records: 0

iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-07-24

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
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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
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gbif_taxon_corrected i	15945	20.697
dwc_phylum_added i	15719	20.404
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added i	15448	20.052
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dwc_multimedia_added i	9102	11.815
taxon_match_failed i	9023	11.712
dwc_order_replaced i	8495	11.027
gbif_vernacularname_added i	8287	10.757
dwc_family_replaced i	8102	10.517
gbif_reference_added i	5786	7.51
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dwc_originalnameusageid_added i	384	0.498
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added i	321	0.417
dwc_taxonremarks_added i	178	0.231
rev_geocode_mismatch i	135	0.175
dwc_kingdom_suspect i	104	0.135
geopoint_datum_error i	75	0.097
geopoint_bounds i	37	0.048
rev_geocode_corrected i	30	0.039
rev_geocode_failure i	30	0.039
rev_geocode_both_sign i	25	0.032
geopoint_low_precision i	3	0.004
rev_geocode_lon_sign i	3	0.004
rev_geocode_flip i	2	0.003
dwc_genus_added i	1	0.001

Month of	Search	Download	Seen	Records Viewed
08 / 2022	881,628,484	155,801	234,463	77
09 / 2022	990,752,107	83,242	348,802	129
10 / 2022	1,221,603,317	458,585	550,900	54
11 / 2022	1,107,122,528	149,850	468,548	59
12 / 2022	883,931,146	74,001	230,601	210
01 / 2023	845,657,770	122,084	334,948	361
02 / 2023	8,520,467	0	6,480	1
03 / 2023	463,077,995	0	238,416	35
04 / 2023	1,142,396,472	73,663	486,673	243
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	2,401,446,743	120	415,844	8,509
01 / 2025	7,718,862,367	41,613	1,721,099	8,325
02 / 2025	4,339,687,881	321,243	3,932,396	16,704
03 / 2025	2,885,176,966	4,320,712	2,565,935	8,997
04 / 2025	3,787,367,954	2,259,989	3,711,496	3,170
05 / 2025	2,777,587,461	63,768	2,248,820	5,660
06 / 2025	2,483,623,973	915,860	1,924,222	8,209
07 / 2025	448,063,628	191,207	331,347	456
08 / 2025	1,808,173,096	476	1,727,152	1,381

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Recordset

UF Florida Museum Paleobotany

Contacts