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KUBI Vertebrate Paleontology Collection

Specimen Records: 98,434
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

The vertebrate paleontology program at the University of Kansas has, for over a century, sustained a national and international reputation. The reputation of the collection has been based more on intensive use than on sheer size. We now hold over 150,000 cataloged specimens (>75,000 are available in digital format) and around 400 publications related to our collections have been published in the last 35 years. Research strengths include: Paleozoic and Mesozoic fishes, Paleozoic tetrapods, Mesozoic marine vertebrates, Cenozoic small mammals and Natural Trap Cave fauna.

Contacts

Name Andrew Bentley
RoleBioinformatics Manager
Emailm896s904@ku.edu
Name Megan Sims
RoleCollection Manager
Emailm896s904@ku.edu
Name K Christopher Beard
RoleSenior Curator
Emailchris.beard@ku.edu
Name David Burnham
RolePreparator
Emaildinosaur@ku.edu
Name Megan Sims
RoleCollection Manager
Emailm896s904@ku.edu
Name Chris Beard
RoleCurator
Emailchris.beard@ku.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.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
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92.398
dwc_continent_added  i90944
92.391
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53.509
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53.509
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53.509
dwc_taxonid_added  i52671
53.509
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i52671
53.509
dwc_taxonrank_added  i52671
53.509
gbif_canonicalname_added  i52671
53.509
gbif_genericname_added  i52671
53.509
gbif_taxon_corrected  i52671
53.509
dwc_phylum_added  i52233
53.064
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i51151
51.965
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i27811
28.253
dwc_multimedia_added  i24361
24.749
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13.037
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12.044
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11.428
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11.303
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10.63
dwc_family_replaced  i9680
9.834
dwc_genus_added  i4820
4.897
dwc_family_added  i4332
4.401
dwc_genus_replaced  i2178
2.213
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i1949
1.98
dwc_order_added  i1620
1.646
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i93
0.094
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i30
0.03
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i8
0.008
dwc_country_replaced  i3
0.003
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i1
0.001
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