University of California Museum of Paleontology Specimen Collection

University of California Museum of Paleontology provides data supporting research and education on the history of life and Earth's biodiversity. The dataset is authored by Joyce Gross and was last updated in February 2015. It is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing specimen occurrence records for taxonomic distribution studies.
• Researching historical biodiversity patterns across geological time scales.
• Educational applications for teaching paleontology and Earth history.
• Cross-referencing museum collection data with other paleontological databases.

Strengths

• Data is provided under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse.
• Originates from an authoritative institutional source, the University of California Museum of Paleontology.

Limitations

• Key quantitative details like row count, file size, and specific column names are unavailable from all sources.
• Data freshness is limited, with the last confirmed update in 2015.

Provenance

Source

University of California Museum of Paleontology

Collection Method

Museum collection and research records, method unspecified.

Time Range

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Freshness

2015-02-10 14:43:55

Geography

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