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UAM Earth Sciences Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 52,394
Media Records: 49,329
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-08-24

The University of Alaska Museum of the North Earth Sciences collection (UAMES) focuses on Alaskan fossils. It contains more than 65,000 specimens in two sub-collections: paleontology and geology (not databased yet). The paleontology collection houses both vertebrate and invertebrate specimens, ranging from Cambrian archaeocyathids to Quaternary mammals. Significantly, it is the largest collection of polar dinosaurs in the world with 10,000 specimens, primarily from the North Slope of Alaska. It also comprises a diverse assortment of Alaskan Quaternary mammals, including a large portion of the material collected throughout Alaska by Otto W. Geist between the late 1920s and the 1960s. The collection also contains a variety of paleobotanical specimens and a large collection of invertebrates (both micro- and macrofossils). It is home to 39 holotypes and 409 paratypes, most of which are invertebrates. The collection is growing through active research projects in different regions of Alaska and collaboration with state and federal agencies.

Contacts

Name Patrick Druckenmiller
RoleCurator of Earth Sciences
Emailpsdruckenmiller@alaska.edu
Name Patrick Druckenmiller
RoleCurator of Earth Sciences
Emailpsdruckenmiller@alaska.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 Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Julie Rousseau
RoleEarth Sciences Collection Manager
Emailjirousseau@alaska.edu
Name Patrick Druckenmiller
RoleCurator of Earth Sciences
Emailpsdruckenmiller@alaska.edu
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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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99.645
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42.484
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42.484
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42.484
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42.484
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42.484
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42.484
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42.484
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39.743
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32.175
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31.687
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29.217
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8.791
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7.713
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7.661
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7.642
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7.365
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5.222
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3.737
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3.653
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3.373
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3.161
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3.161
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2.85
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2.611
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2.395
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1.809
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1.172
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0.796
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0.647
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rev_geocode_lon_sign  i3
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rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i1
0.002
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i1
0.002
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