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Invert Paleo Specimens

Specimen Records: 210,017
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2020-07-24

With nearly one million specimens from every major invertebrate fossil group, the invertebrate paleontology collection is among the most scientifically important in North America. It contains nearly 3,000 primary type specimens and about 7,000 figured specimens. The majority of samples in the collection include detailed ancillary information on geographic and stratigraphic occurrence.

Contacts

Name Steve Westrop
RoleCurator
Emailswestrop@ou.edu
Name Paul King
RoleHead of IT
Emailpking@ou.edu
Name Kyle Wilson
RoleInformation Systems Lead
Emailkyle.a.wilson-1@ou.edu
Name Tracy Bidwell
RoleRegistrar
Emailtbidwell@ou.edu
Name Roger Burkhalter
RoleCollection Manager
Emailrjb@ou.edu
Name Roger Burkhalter
RoleCollections Manager
Emailrjb@ou.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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77.604
dwc_continent_added  i162661
77.451
dwc_datasetid_added  i146433
69.724
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i146433
69.724
dwc_taxonid_added  i146433
69.724
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i146433
69.724
dwc_taxonrank_added  i146433
69.724
gbif_canonicalname_added  i146433
69.724
gbif_genericname_added  i146433
69.724
gbif_taxon_corrected  i146433
69.724
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i93770
44.649
taxon_match_failed  i72038
34.301
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i49695
23.662
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i38944
18.543
dwc_family_added  i28875
13.749
dwc_family_replaced  i27830
13.251
dwc_class_added  i19664
9.363
dwc_multimedia_added  i18076
8.607
gbif_reference_added  i16701
7.952
dwc_phylum_added  i16203
7.715
dwc_genus_replaced  i15109
7.194
dwc_order_added  i10445
4.973
dwc_class_replaced  i4791
2.281
dwc_order_replaced  i4647
2.213
gbif_vernacularname_added  i3652
1.739
dwc_phylum_replaced  i1783
0.849
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i1746
0.831
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i736
0.35
dwc_specificepithet_added  i269
0.128
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i266
0.127
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i231
0.11
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