OCCURRENCE

Canadian Museum of Nature Palynology Collection

Version 1.22 published by Canadian Museum of Nature on 02 February 2023 Canadian Museum of Nature
Our Fossil Pollen Collection consists of 72 070 fossil pollen and spore specimens and modern reference specimens in about 14 570 lots. It is one of the few palynology collections in Canada.
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Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 14,566 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    14566
  • Multimedia 
    18

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Downloads

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 14,566 records in English (1 MB)  - Update frequency: as needed
Metadata as an EML file download in English (7 kB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (5 kB)

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Shepherd K (2023): Canadian Museum of Nature Palynology Collection. v1.22. Canadian Museum of Nature. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.nature.ca/resource?r=cmn_palynology&v=1.22

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Canadian Museum of Nature. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 21a0cb45-f0ec-4901-a868-cd45abe74601.  Canadian Museum of Nature publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Kieran Shepherd
Curator, Palaeobiology
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
1-613-364-4054

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Kieran Shepherd
Curator, Palaeobiology
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
1-613-364-4054
Margaret Currie
Collection Technician
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
1-613-566-4251

Who filled in the metadata:

Kieran Shepherd
Curator, Palaeobiology
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
1-613-364-4054
John Torgersen
Assistant Collections Information Manager
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA

Who else was associated with the resource:

Curator
Kieran Shepherd
Curator, Palaeobiology
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
1-613-364-4054
Point Of Contact
Kieran Shepherd
Curator, Palaeobiology
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
Ontario
CA
1-613-364-4054

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 21a0cb45-f0ec-4901-a868-cd45abe74601
http://ipt.nature.ca/resource?r=cmn_palynology