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Alabama Museum of Natural History Paleontology specimens (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 11,362
Media Records: 797
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-04-18

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
  • Data Corrected
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  • 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  i11143
98.073
dwc_continent_added  i11120
97.87
dwc_datasetid_added  i3939
34.668
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i3939
34.668
dwc_taxonid_added  i3939
34.668
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i3939
34.668
dwc_taxonrank_added  i3939
34.668
gbif_canonicalname_added  i3939
34.668
gbif_genericname_added  i3939
34.668
gbif_taxon_corrected  i3939
34.668
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i3841
33.806
dwc_multimedia_added  i3141
27.645
gbif_reference_added  i1886
16.599
dwc_genus_added  i1201
10.57
dwc_family_added  i1195
10.518
dwc_class_added  i1149
10.113
gbif_vernacularname_added  i1126
9.91
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9.664
dwc_class_replaced  i1055
9.285
taxon_match_failed  i852
7.499
dwc_family_replaced  i756
6.654
geopoint_datum_error  i629
5.536
dwc_genus_replaced  i513
4.515
dwc_kingdom_added  i383
3.371
dwc_phylum_added  i377
3.318
dwc_order_replaced  i357
3.142
dwc_phylum_replaced  i143
1.259
dwc_specificepithet_added  i67
0.59
dwc_continent_replaced  i58
0.51
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i39
0.343
geopoint_low_precision  i33
0.29
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i8
0.07
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i7
0.062
rev_geocode_eez  i2
0.018
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