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SDNHM Paleontology Collection

Specimen Records: 142,363
Media Records: 0
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2021-11-03

The SDNHM paleontology collections include over 153,000 numbered species lots. These lots vary in size from single specimens (e.g., an isolated mammal tooth) to suites of specimens (e.g., 300 shells of a particular species of marine snail), and represent over 1.5 million specimens. The specimens have been recovered from over 5,500 recorded collecting localities, primarily from southern California and northern Baja California, Mexico. There are 574 primary and 730 secondary types

Contacts

Name Kesler Randall
RoleCollections Manager
Emailkrandall@sdnhm.org
Name Kesler Randall
RoleCollections Manager
Emailkrandall@sdnhm.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Thomas Demere
RoleCurator
Emailtdemere@sdnhm.org
Name Kesler Randall
RoleCollections Manager
Emailkrandall@sdnhm.org
  • 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  i142320
99.97
geopoint_low_precision  i141897
99.673
dwc_datasetid_added  i103533
72.725
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i103533
72.725
dwc_taxonid_added  i103533
72.725
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i103533
72.725
gbif_canonicalname_added  i103533
72.725
gbif_genericname_added  i103533
72.725
gbif_taxon_corrected  i103533
72.725
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i97781
68.684
gbif_reference_added  i56413
39.626
gbif_vernacularname_added  i38133
26.786
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i36174
25.41
dwc_multimedia_added  i35008
24.591
rev_geocode_eez  i30203
21.215
dwc_order_replaced  i24861
17.463
taxon_match_failed  i24136
16.954
dwc_order_added  i19364
13.602
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i15907
11.174
dwc_family_replaced  i14620
10.27
dwc_genus_replaced  i7501
5.269
dwc_genus_added  i6331
4.447
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i5867
4.121
dwc_phylum_replaced  i5662
3.977
dwc_class_replaced  i5598
3.932
dwc_family_added  i4464
3.136
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i2565
1.802
rev_geocode_mismatch  i1997
1.403
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i688
0.483
dwc_class_added  i192
0.135
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i97
0.068
dwc_phylum_added  i52
0.037
geopoint_datum_error  i12
0.008
rev_geocode_failure  i8
0.006
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i3
0.002
dwc_continent_replaced  i1
0.001
dwc_kingdom_replaced  i1
0.001
dwc_taxonremarks_replaced  i1
0.001
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