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NMNH Paleobiology Specimen Records (USNM)

Specimen Records: 727,473
Media Records: 87,847
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-08-21

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  i550327
75.649
dwc_datasetid_added  i350776
48.218
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i350776
48.218
dwc_taxonid_added  i350776
48.218
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i350776
48.218
gbif_canonicalname_added  i350776
48.218
gbif_genericname_added  i350776
48.218
gbif_taxon_corrected  i350776
48.218
dwc_taxonrank_added  i336921
46.314
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i195668
26.897
dwc_family_added  i120582
16.575
taxon_match_failed  i114563
15.748
gbif_reference_added  i109213
15.013
dwc_multimedia_added  i85632
11.771
geopoint_datum_missing  i74714
10.27
dwc_order_added  i67062
9.218
gbif_vernacularname_added  i60556
8.324
rev_geocode_eez  i57833
7.95
dwc_continent_added  i49466
6.8
dwc_class_replaced  i44703
6.145
dwc_continent_replaced  i41689
5.731
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i38623
5.309
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i35687
4.906
geopoint_datum_error  i29354
4.035
dwc_genus_replaced  i26134
3.592
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i25919
3.563
dwc_family_replaced  i24655
3.389
dwc_class_added  i20572
2.828
geopoint_low_precision  i19272
2.649
dwc_phylum_added  i18120
2.491
dwc_order_replaced  i15657
2.152
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i13896
1.91
dwc_phylum_replaced  i7754
1.066
dwc_genus_added  i6126
0.842
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i5462
0.751
dwc_country_added  i5381
0.74
rev_geocode_failure  i3556
0.489
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i2742
0.377
dwc_country_replaced  i2158
0.297
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1251
0.172
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i645
0.089
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i513
0.071
dwc_kingdom_added  i507
0.07
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i45
0.006
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i38
0.005
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i38
0.005
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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