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NMNH Paleobiology Specimen Records (USNM)

Specimen Records: 718,880
Media Records: 163,095
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-11

Public records from the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. These data cover accessioned specimens representing fossil invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants from all over the world and include more than 139,000 paleobiological type specimen records.

Contacts

Name Thomas Orrell
RoleDeputy Director, Research Informatics Program
Emailorrellt@si.edu
Name Informatics Office
RoleIPT Administrator
Emailinformaticshelp@si.edu
Name Thomas Orrell
RoleDeputy Director, Research Informatics Program
Emailorrellt@si.edu
Name Informatics Office
RoleIPT Administrator
Emailinformaticshelp@si.edu
Name Holly Little
RoleCollections Management
Emaillittleh@si.edu
Name Thomas Orrell
RoleDeputy Director, Research Informatics Program
Emailorrellt@si.edu
Name Informatics Office
RoleIPT Administrator
Emailinformaticshelp@si.edu
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • 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  i543825
75.649
dwc_datasetid_added  i347812
48.382
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i347812
48.382
dwc_taxonid_added  i347812
48.382
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i347812
48.382
gbif_canonicalname_added  i347812
48.382
gbif_genericname_added  i347812
48.382
gbif_taxon_corrected  i347812
48.382
dwc_taxonrank_added  i333928
46.451
dwc_family_added  i204198
28.405
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i190963
26.564
taxon_match_failed  i114280
15.897
dwc_order_added  i113569
15.798
gbif_reference_added  i108755
15.128
dwc_class_replaced  i89832
12.496
dwc_multimedia_added  i85065
11.833
geopoint_datum_missing  i77571
10.791
dwc_class_added  i60227
8.378
gbif_vernacularname_added  i60082
8.358
rev_geocode_eez  i56748
7.894
dwc_continent_added  i51906
7.22
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i38478
5.352
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i36481
5.075
dwc_phylum_replaced  i34156
4.751
dwc_continent_replaced  i28153
3.916
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i27948
3.888
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i25876
3.599
dwc_genus_replaced  i25869
3.599
dwc_family_replaced  i19566
2.722
dwc_phylum_added  i18396
2.559
geopoint_low_precision  i17020
2.368
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i13925
1.937
dwc_order_replaced  i10877
1.513
dwc_country_added  i5454
0.759
dwc_genus_added  i5029
0.7
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i4942
0.687
rev_geocode_failure  i3479
0.484
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i2746
0.382
dwc_country_replaced  i2140
0.298
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1171
0.163
dwc_kingdom_added  i725
0.101
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i624
0.087
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i502
0.07
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i38
0.005
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i38
0.005
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i33
0.005
geopoint_0_coord  i19
0.003
rev_geocode_corrected  i17
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i15
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i12
0.002
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i9
0.001
rev_geocode_flip_both_sign  i4
0.001
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i3
0
dwc_specificepithet_added  i1
0
geopoint_bounds  i1
0
rev_geocode_flip  i1
0
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