Description
This dataset represents the physical and digital holdings of fossil animals at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. The collection includes more than one million items, including many type specimens. The main part of the collection consists of material from Sweden, mainly invertebrates from the lower Palaeozoic (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian), including extensive collections from the Silurian of Gotland. The collection also includes rich faunas, both invertebrates and vertebrates, from the Mesozoic of Scania. The non-Scandinavian invertebrate material also includes particularly important collections of microfossils from the early Cambrian, fossil seep faunas and material from the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The vertebrate collections include one of the world’s richest collections of Devonian fish, with a focus on Spitzbergen, Greenland, and Germany. There are also important holdings of South American Pleistocene mammals.
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 74,109 records.
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.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Palaeozoological Collections
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Swedish Museum of Natural History. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 20ab8294-5253-46ca-bdb2-eab1b5e75657. Swedish Museum of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Fossils; Animalia; Worldwide; Sweden; Gotland; Antarctica; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
All continents and countries. All geological periods. Focus on early Palaeozoic and Mesozoic of Sweden and northern Europe with the world's largest collection of fossils from Gotland, and further from the Arctic and Antarctic regions.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All Metazoa with a fossil record (Phyla: Chordata; Echinodermata; Hemichordata; Arthropoda; Brachiopoda; Bryozoa; Mollusca; Annelida; Cnidaria; Porifera (Calcarea; Hexactinellida; Demospongea; Archaeocyatha; etc.) as well as organisms of uncertain biological affinity (Conodonts, Radiodontans; Hyoliths, Tentaculites; Lobopodians; Mobergellans, Chancelloriids and so called Small Shelly Fossils) in addition to trace fossils and fossil protozoans (Foraminifera, Radiolaria etc.).
| Kingdom | Animalia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | Palaeozoic to Pleistocene |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Palaeontological Collections (PZ) |
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| Collection Identifier | Not Applicable |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not Applicable |
| Specimen preservation methods | Other |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 20ab8294-5253-46ca-bdb2-eab1b5e75657 |
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| https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=pz-nrm |