Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (Paleobotany) (YU)
Contacts: Shuseng Hu, shusheng.hu@yale.edu
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 19 October 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Rights Holder: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Cite this collection:
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (Paleobotany). Occurrence dataset (ID: 35cdf16d-4e31-47ca-8573-8127712c2b44) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, /portal, 2022-12-01).
Collection Statistics
- 9,588 specimen records
- 7,978 (83%) georeferenced
- 9,586 (100%) with images (9,901 total images)
- 1,580 (16%) identified to species
- 69 families
- 107 genera
- 354 species
- 354 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
The PCC, and this data portal, were made possible by funding from the National Science Foundation’s
Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) program, grant numbers
1802504,
1802352,
1802134,
1802033,
1802270,
1802255,
1802239,
1802446,
1802305.
The pteridoportal taxonomic thesaurus is based on the
Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, generously provided by Michael Hassler.