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NMNH Paleobiology Specimen Records (USNM)

Specimen Records: 720,071
Media Records: 167,292
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-09-19

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  i545309
75.73
dwc_datasetid_added  i348184
48.354
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i348184
48.354
dwc_taxonid_added  i348184
48.354
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i348184
48.354
gbif_canonicalname_added  i348184
48.354
gbif_genericname_added  i348184
48.354
gbif_taxon_corrected  i348184
48.354
dwc_taxonrank_added  i334334
46.431
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i191016
26.527
dwc_family_added  i186421
25.889
taxon_match_failed  i114258
15.868
gbif_reference_added  i108713
15.098
dwc_order_added  i95691
13.289
dwc_multimedia_added  i84988
11.803
geopoint_datum_missing  i78346
10.88
dwc_class_replaced  i69363
9.633
gbif_vernacularname_added  i60040
8.338
dwc_class_added  i59995
8.332
rev_geocode_eez  i57265
7.953
dwc_continent_added  i51819
7.196
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i38483
5.344
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i36430
5.059
dwc_continent_replaced  i28430
3.948
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i25842
3.589
dwc_genus_replaced  i25752
3.576
dwc_family_replaced  i21751
3.021
dwc_phylum_added  i18160
2.522
geopoint_low_precision  i17483
2.428
dwc_phylum_replaced  i16768
2.329
dwc_order_replaced  i14127
1.962
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i13891
1.929
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i9915
1.377
dwc_genus_added  i5548
0.77
dwc_country_added  i5458
0.758
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i5250
0.729
rev_geocode_failure  i3520
0.489
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i2746
0.381
dwc_country_replaced  i2151
0.299
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1240
0.172
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i637
0.088
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i513
0.071
dwc_kingdom_added  i490
0.068
dwc_taxonrank_invalid  i38
0.005
dwc_taxonrank_removed  i38
0.005
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i25
0.003
geopoint_0_coord  i19
0.003
rev_geocode_corrected  i18
0.002
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i16
0.002
geopoint_similar_coord  i12
0.002
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i10
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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