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Specimen Record

ContinentNorth America
CountryUnited States
State/ProvinceKansas
County/ParishOsage
LocalityRr Cut, Melvern
Latitude38.50405
Longitude-95.63787
Institution CodeKu
Collection CodeKumip
Catalog Number45825
Collected ByWallace, Maurice H.

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KU Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology
http://biodiversity.ku.edu/invertebrate-paleontology/collections

The University of Kansas invertebrate paleontology collection is ranked among the top 10 largest fossil invertebrate collections in the country and has over 850,000 fossil invertebrate and microfossil specimens from all over the world, including more than 8,200 type or figured specimens. These specimens have been used for research by paleontologists for over 120 years. The collection has taxonomic strengths in Cambrian trilobites from Antarctica and the Great Basin, United States; Upper Paleozoic invertebrates of the mid-continent; Cambrian soft-bodied faunas from Utah; Mesozoic cephalopods from the mid-continent. Research access to the collections is arranged on a case-by-case basis.

Contacts

Name Una Farrell
RoleCollection Manager
Emailufarrell@ku.edu
Name Una Farrell
RoleCollection Manager
Emailufarrell@ku.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@ku.edu
Name Bruce Lieberman
RoleCurator
Emailblieber@ku.edu
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Taxonomy
Scientific NameBeecheria
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumBrachiopoda
ClassRhynchonellata
OrderTerebratulida
FamilyHeterelasminidae
GenusBeecheria
Specimen
Catalog Number45825
Institution CodeKU
Collection CodeKUMIP
Occurrence ID27e66ca3-1ed8-11e3-bfac-90b11c41863e
Dataset NameUniversity of Kansas Biodiversity Institute invertebrate paleontology collection
Basis of RecordFossilSpecimen
Type of ResourcePhysicalObject
Collection Event
Collected ByWallace, Maurice H.
Locality
CountryUnited States
State / ProvinceKansas
CountyOsage
Higher GeographyUnited States, Kansas, Osage
ContinentNorth America
LocalityRR cut, Melvern
Decimal Latitude38.5040500
Decimal Longitude-95.6378700
Georeference ProtocolGeoreferencing Quick Reference Guide Version 2012-10-02
Coordinate Uncertainty In Meters1070.0000000000
Geodetic DatumWGS84
Georeference RemarksPlotted lat-long on railway in Melvern, expanded uncertainty to include all of Melvern polygon from that point.
Georeferenced ByFarrell, Una C
Georeferenced Date2013-03-25
Paleo Context
Geological Context GroupShawnee Group
MemberKereford Limestone
FormationOread Limestone
Earliest Period Or Lowest SystemPennsylvanian
Earliest Epoch Or Lowest SeriesUpper Pennsylvanian
Earliest Age Or Lowest StageVirgilian
Other
Languageen
Modified2014-09-22 10:25:10.0
ID27e66ca3-1ed8-11e3-bfac-90b11c41863e
dcterms:accessRightshttp://biodiversity.ku.edu/research/university-kansas-biodiversity-institute-data-publication-and-use-norms
dcterms:licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_US
dwc:institutionIDhttp://grbio.org/cool/iakn-125z
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