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Alabama Museum of Natural History Paleontology specimens (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 12,577
Media Records: 797
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2026-04-23

The first fossil entries in the University of Alabama's Paleo collection were fossil nuts from Madison County, Alabama, reported by William MacMillan in 1831. Since then, the ALMNH Paleo Collections have expanded to include hundreds of thousands of Vertebrates, Invertebrates and Botanical specimens.

Contacts

Name Mary Beth Prondzinski
RoleCollections Manager
Emailmbprondzinski@ua.edu
Name Adiel Klompmaker
RoleCurator of Paleontology
Emailaaklompmaker@ua.edu
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Abbott
RoleChief Curator & Director of Museum Research and Collections
Emailjabbott1@ua.edu
Name Mary Beth Prondzinski
RoleCollections Manager
Emailmbprondzinski@ua.edu
Name Adiel Klompmaker
RoleCurator of Paleontology
Emailaaklompmaker@ua.edu
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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34.603
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34.603
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34.603
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34.603
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34.603
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33.617
dwc_multimedia_added  i3312
26.334
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16.562
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9.78
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9.764
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9.533
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8.683
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7.538
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4.953
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4.142
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2.878
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2.807
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0.072
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0.016