Description
The Cowan Tetrapod Collection mammal holdings holdings of 540 species in 95 families is comprised over 20,000 specimens. Global in scope, the collection is especially strong in specimens collected from Western Canada and southern Africa. The collection was founded by Dr. Ian McTaggart-Cowan and his father-in-law Kenneth Racey. The mammal collection is housed at the University of British Columbia Beaty Biodiversity Museum which contains approximately 2 million natural history specimens.
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 19,956 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
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Cowan Tetrapod Collection at the University of British Columbia Beaty Biodiversity Museum (UBCBBM)
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of British Columbia. 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: 3ad882bb-cd21-4201-8b83-3684bfc6d830. University of British Columbia publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Global in scope with a particular emphasis on Western Canada and Southern Africa.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
24 out of 29 living orders; 62% of living mammalian families are represented.
| Class | Mammalia (Mammals) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1930-01-01 / 2013-01-01 |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Cowan Tetrapod Collection - Mammals |
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| Collection Identifier | UBCBBM |
| Parent Collection Identifier | University of British Columbia Beaty Biodiversity Museum |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 3ad882bb-cd21-4201-8b83-3684bfc6d830 |
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| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=ubc_bbm_ctc_mammals |