Vert Paleo Specimen

Specimen Records: 70,447

Media Records: 0

iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2017-12-11

The vertebrate paleontology collection is a major international research resource and constitutes one of the most important records of vertebrate history and evolution in the southern plains. With over 70,000 cataloged specimens, all geological time periods in which vertebrates occur are represented. Our collection also maintains comprehensive osteology and teaching collections. The nucleus of the collection was made under the auspices of Works Projects Administration in the late 1930s and early 1940s, led by the museum’s first director, J. Willis Stovall (1891–1953). Most of these specimens are from Oklahoma. The collection has roughly tripled in size since the late 1980s, and the numbers of type and figured specimens have increased accordingly. This growth continues, as we maintain an active collecting program. Spanning more than 300 million years geologic time, the collection is especially strong in Early Permian tetrapods, Jurassic dinosaurs, and Mio-Pliocene mammals of Oklahoma; as well as vertebrate faunas from the Cretaceous of the Western Interior. Noteworthy individual fossils or assemblages include a spectacularly diverse and well represented fauna from Early Permian fissure fills, a collection of baby sauropod bones from the Morrison Formation, large samples of Miocene horse species, a large and diverse collection of Cretaceous microvertebrates (such as mammals and lizards) from the western United States, and some relatively complete or unique specimens of Cretaceous dinosaurs (such as Tenontosaurus and Pentaceratops).

Contacts

Name	Richard Cifelli
Role	Curator
Email	rlc@ou.edu

Name	Nicholas Czaplewski
Role	Curator
Email	nczaplewski@ou.edu

Name	Paul King
Role	Head Of IT
Email	pking@ou.edu

Name	Kyle Wilson
Role	Collection Manager
Email	kyle.a.wilson-1@ou.edu

Name	Tracy Bidwell
Role	Registrar
Email	tbidwell@ou.edu

Name	Kyle Davies
Role	Museum Preparator
Email	ankylo@ou.edu

Name	Jennifer Larsen
Role	Collection Manager
Email	jennifer.m.larsen-1@ou.edu

Name	Jennifer Larsen
Role	Collection Manager
Email	jennifer.m.larsen-1@ou.edu

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Flag	Records With This Flag	(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added i	70144	99.57
dwc_country_replaced i	69169	98.186
dwc_continent_added i	49158	69.78
dwc_stateprovince_replaced i	48364	68.653

The table below represents monthly iDigBio portal use statistics for this recordset. Search indicates in how many instances a record from this recordset matched a search query. Download indicates in how many instances a record from this recordset was downloaded. Seen indicates in how many instances a record from this recordset appeared (visually) in the search results in a browser window. Records Viewed and Media Viewed indicate how many specimen and media records were opened and viewed in full detail. Note: Monthly statistics aggregation began on Jan 15th 2015; therefore, the month of (01 / 2015) represents approximately half a month of statistics reporting.

Month of	Search	Download	Seen	Records Viewed
12 / 2017	453,082,319	0	1,356	4
01 / 2018	959,464,846	4,927	5,280	8
02 / 2018	910,690,023	1	22	0
03 / 2018	924,178,859	2	26	0
04 / 2018	767,532,731	77,108	8	1
05 / 2018	787,276,905	0	53	0
06 / 2018	904,083,607	38	55	0
07 / 2018	769,454,159	0	481	0
08 / 2018	760,804,986	0	293	0
09 / 2018	809,518,803	0	199	0
10 / 2018	839,876,928	17	1,195	2
11 / 2018	951,590,792	5	167	8
12 / 2018	807,296,116	23	2	1
01 / 2019	705,103,783	0	8	1
02 / 2019	877,248,036	29	36	0
03 / 2019	930,260,005	86	65	0
04 / 2019	878,953,976	0	3	0
05 / 2019	811,241,660	0	202	0
06 / 2019	734,793,802	3	83	0
07 / 2019	843,561,125	0	106	1
08 / 2019	828,082,448	0	21	0
09 / 2019	889,162,152	0	111	2
10 / 2019	913,127,630	226	1,038	1
11 / 2019	892,465,915	0	5	0
12 / 2019	673,249,239	0	73	0
01 / 2020	839,652,460	0	14	0
02 / 2020	954,105,882	86	100	0
03 / 2020	891,846,243	0	209	0
04 / 2020	917,270,768	0	22	0
05 / 2020	821,945,179	1	6	0
06 / 2020	728,466,634	0	206	0
07 / 2020	784,295,634	0	11	0
08 / 2020	824,708,213	0	108	2
09 / 2020	1,051,100,115	0	51	0
10 / 2020	991,726,524	1	90	0
11 / 2020	1,114,476,597	164	42	0
12 / 2020	827,324,689	0	314	0
01 / 2021	904,700,052	0	3	0
02 / 2021	1,101,867,409	1	36	0
03 / 2021	1,194,757,591	70	20	0
04 / 2021	1,027,012,562	845,434	237	0
05 / 2021	729,007,080	0	155	0
06 / 2021	386,567,543	0	4	0
07 / 2021	919,072,154	140,894	10	0
08 / 2021	823,150,559	285,632	33	3
09 / 2021	910,653,774	23	12	72
10 / 2021	1,060,709,759	0	10	65
11 / 2021	1,103,871,579	563,576	1	81
12 / 2021	859,323,472	1,690,734	5	76
01 / 2022	909,552,085	0	1	54
02 / 2022	2,795,574,657	70,447	48	75
03 / 2022	2,069,308,176	211,350	12	44
04 / 2022	866,743,370	1	26	30
05 / 2022	849,687,977	70,447	70	19
06 / 2022	841,413,447	0	100	63
07 / 2022	880,436,896	141,046	217	27
08 / 2022	868,155,978	140,894	48	35
09 / 2022	930,809,249	71,456	1,116	55
10 / 2022	1,143,010,888	422,715	25	27
11 / 2022	1,030,011,442	140,898	19	22
12 / 2022	833,983,284	70,637	22	141
01 / 2023	788,860,709	70,459	80	220
02 / 2023	7,890,096	0	0	0
03 / 2023	420,931,284	0	4	30
04 / 2023	1,059,915,159	70,448	40	138
05 / 2023	855,221,065	1	20	143
06 / 2023	882,342,149	71,237	4	212
07 / 2023	851,429,000	281,791	3	105
08 / 2023	806,184,803	0	150	91
09 / 2023	992,441,471	140,895	13	204
10 / 2023	1,273,298,171	2,043,641	807	251
11 / 2023	1,119,623,284	211,801	235	295
12 / 2023	947,244,037	98	60	288
01 / 2024	1,480,552,893	13	108	115
02 / 2024	2,138,423,193	563,576	197	134
03 / 2024	2,325,137,504	9,158,689	731	1,188
04 / 2024	899,900,711	140,894	9	85

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Recordset

Vert Paleo Specimen

Contacts