Description
The International Fossil Shell Museum has preserved approx. 360.000 specimens of mainly recent and fossil shells from Pleistocene, Pliocene, Miocene and Eocene epochs. It holds smaller collections of fossil bones, shark teeth, mammoth molars, sea urchins, corals, etc.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 31,251 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has not been registered with GBIF
Keywords
Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider
- Honorary Curator
- Westzeedijk 345
- 06-28076166
- Metadata Provider
Geographic Coverage
Main geographic coverage: France, United States, Australia, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, Turkey and Germany.
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.nlbif.nl/tryout/resource?r=mollusca_ifsm |
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