Collection Profile for: Field Museum of Natural History Fossil Pteridophyte Collection (FMNH-PALEOBOTANY) The Paleobotany Collection spans 3.8 billion years of history but has its major strengths in the Late Paleozoic and Cretaceous-Paleogene.
Cite this collection: Field Museum of Natural History Fossil Pteridophyte Collection. Occurrence dataset (ID: 9b66be69-e839-46a9-add5-b0ad7294d57d) accessed via the PteridoPortal Portal, pteridoportal.org/portal, 2025-02-06).
Collection Statistics
5,562 specimen records
0 georeferenced
2,423 (44%) with images (9,114 total images) 10 (0.18%) identified to species 20 families 6 genera 6 species 6 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management:
Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update:
22 December 2022
Usage Rights:
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.
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