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NMNH Paleobiology Specimen Records (USNM)

Specimen Records: 743,516
Media Records: 182,351
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-11-25

Public records from the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. These data cover accessioned specimens representing fossil invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants from all over the world and include more than 139,000 paleobiological type specimen records.

Contacts

Name Thomas Orrell
RoleDeputy Director, Research Informatics Program
Emailorrellt@si.edu
Name Informatics and Data Science Center - Digital Stewardship
RoleIPT Administrator
Emailinformaticshelp@si.edu
Name Thomas Orrell
RoleDeputy Director, Research Informatics Program
Emailorrellt@si.edu
Name Informatics Office
RoleIPT Administrator
Emailinformaticshelp@si.edu
Name Holly Little
RoleCollections Management
Emaillittleh@si.edu
Name Thomas Orrell
RoleDeputy Director, Research Informatics Program
Emailorrellt@si.edu
Name Informatics and Data Science Center - Digital Stewardship
RoleIPT Administrator
Emailinformaticshelp@si.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
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i566980
76.257
dwc_datasetid_added  i351917
47.331
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i351917
47.331
dwc_taxonid_added  i351917
47.331
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i351917
47.331
gbif_canonicalname_added  i351917
47.331
gbif_genericname_added  i351917
47.331
gbif_taxon_corrected  i351917
47.331
dwc_taxonrank_added  i338062
45.468
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i194089
26.104
dwc_family_added  i120441
16.199
taxon_match_failed  i118236
15.902
gbif_reference_added  i109231
14.691
dwc_multimedia_added  i85635
11.518
geopoint_datum_missing  i74741
10.052
dwc_order_added  i67097
9.024
gbif_vernacularname_added  i60556
8.145
rev_geocode_eez  i57838
7.779
dwc_continent_added  i50070
6.734
dwc_class_replaced  i44803
6.026
dwc_continent_replaced  i41697
5.608
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i38630
5.196
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i35768
4.811
geopoint_datum_error  i29463
3.963
dwc_genus_replaced  i26137
3.515
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i25924
3.487
dwc_family_replaced  i24766
3.331
dwc_class_added  i20581
2.768
geopoint_low_precision  i19287
2.594
dwc_phylum_added  i18121
2.437
dwc_order_replaced  i15761
2.12
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i13896
1.869
dwc_phylum_replaced  i7883
1.06
dwc_genus_added  i6698
0.901
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i5462
0.735
dwc_country_added  i5377
0.723
rev_geocode_failure  i3556
0.478
dwc_country_replaced  i2762
0.371
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i2742
0.369
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1269
0.171
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i645
0.087
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i513
0.069
dwc_kingdom_added  i508
0.068
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i45
0.006
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i29
0.004
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i29
0.004
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i25
0.003
rev_geocode_corrected  i25
0.003
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i20
0.003
geopoint_0_coord  i19
0.003
geopoint_similar_coord  i12
0.002
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i12
0.002
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i6
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i5
0.001
rev_geocode_flip  i2
0
dwc_specificepithet_added  i1
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
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