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UCM Fossil Vertebrate Specimens (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 92,044
Media Records: 1,248
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-09-22

The UCM Fossil Vertebrate Collection contains nearly a hundred thousand cataloged fossil vertebrate specimens. This collection is the culmination of over 100 years of collecting from around the world and contains fossils that range in age from the Devonian through the Quaternary Periods. Its strengths are in Cretaceous marine vertebrates and Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic fossil mammals from the Rocky Mountain region.

Contacts

Name Jacob Van Veldhuizen
RoleVertebrate Paleontology Collections Manager
Emailjacob.vanveldhuizen@colorado.edu
Name Jacob Van Veldhuizen
RoleVertebrate Paleontology Collections Manager
Emailjacob.vanveldhuizen@colorado.edu
Name Dusty McDonald
Rolenone
Emaildustymc@gmail.com
Name David Bloom
Rolenone
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name Jacob Van Veldhuizen
RoleVertebrate Paleontology Collections Manager
Emailjacob.vanveldhuizen@colorado.edu
Name Jaelyn Eberle
RoleCurator of Fossil Vertebrates
Emailjaelyn.eberle@colorado.edu
  • Data Corrected
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  • 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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i91779
99.712
dwc_continent_added  i90494
98.316
dwc_datasetid_added  i50082
54.411
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54.411
dwc_taxonid_added  i50082
54.411
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i50082
54.411
gbif_canonicalname_added  i50082
54.411
gbif_genericname_added  i50082
54.411
gbif_taxon_corrected  i50082
54.411
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i49032
53.27
dwc_multimedia_added  i28361
30.812
geopoint_datum_error  i15196
16.509
taxon_match_failed  i10775
11.706
dwc_family_replaced  i8882
9.65
dwc_genus_added  i6944
7.544
dwc_family_added  i6530
7.094
gbif_vernacularname_added  i6380
6.931
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i6239
6.778
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5.972
dwc_class_added  i5282
5.739
gbif_reference_added  i4754
5.165
dwc_kingdom_added  i4277
4.647
dwc_phylum_added  i4277
4.647
dwc_taxonrank_added  i4179
4.54
dwc_order_replaced  i3054
3.318
dwc_class_replaced  i2616
2.842
dwc_genus_replaced  i1743
1.894
dwc_phylum_replaced  i934
1.015
dwc_specificepithet_added  i363
0.394
dwc_continent_replaced  i243
0.264
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i179
0.194
geopoint_low_precision  i136
0.148
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i91
0.099
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i37
0.04
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i30
0.033
rev_geocode_corrected  i17
0.018
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i17
0.018
rev_geocode_mismatch  i17
0.018
rev_geocode_eez  i5
0.005
dwc_country_replaced  i1
0.001
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