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UWBM Invertebrate Paleontology Collection

Specimen Records: 23,281
Media Records: 1,469
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2022-12-07

The Burke Museum Invertebrate Paleontology and Micropaleontology Collections include 3.6 million specimens and include invertebrate, foraminifera and trace fossils, dating from the Cambrian (around 530 million years ago) to the Quaternary (10,000 years ago). The Burke Museum Invertebrate Paleontology Collection is a member of the NSF-funded Thematic Collection Network (TCN), the Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic era (EPICC), award number 1503678, and is currently working to digitize its collection.

Contacts

Name Ron Eng
RoleGeology & Paleontology Collections Manager
Emailrceng@u.washington.edu
Name Ron Eng
RoleGeology & Paleontology Collections Manager
Emailrceng@u.washington.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Ben Legler
Rolenone
Emailblegler@uw.edu
Name Sara Legler
RoleBurke Museum EPICC Coordinator
Emailslegler@uw.edu
Name Ron Eng
RoleGeology & Paleontology Collections Manager
Emailrceng@u.washington.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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99.901
geopoint_low_precision  i22100
94.927
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77.187
dwc_kingdom_added  i17970
77.187
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77.187
dwc_taxonid_added  i17970
77.187
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i17970
77.187
gbif_canonicalname_added  i17970
77.187
gbif_genericname_added  i17970
77.187
gbif_taxon_corrected  i17970
77.187
gbif_reference_added  i14095
60.543
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i13906
59.731
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i12973
55.724
dwc_multimedia_added  i7915
33.998
dwc_order_replaced  i7739
33.242
gbif_vernacularname_added  i7303
31.369
taxon_match_failed  i7026
30.179
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i4608
19.793
geopoint_datum_missing  i4330
18.599
rev_geocode_eez  i4282
18.393
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i3548
15.24
dwc_family_replaced  i3045
13.079
dwc_continent_replaced  i2671
11.473
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i2479
10.648
dwc_genus_replaced  i2350
10.094
dwc_order_added  i412
1.77
dwc_family_added  i408
1.753
dwc_class_added  i403
1.731
dwc_phylum_added  i389
1.671
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i386
1.658
dwc_class_replaced  i278
1.194
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i97
0.417
dwc_phylum_replaced  i93
0.399
rev_geocode_mismatch  i7
0.03
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4
0.017
dwc_specificepithet_added  i2
0.009
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