VIT-Paleonthotheca (The Natural History Museum of Alava)

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Natural History Museum of Alava (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa) on Jun 2, 2023 Natural History Museum of Alava (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa)
Publication date:
2 June 2023
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

The Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava has a Palaeontology collection of approximately 17 000 fossils from various important fossil sites, primarily in the Basque-Cantabrian region (northern Spain). The following materials are represented in the collection: Early Cretaceous amber biota from Moraza and Peñacerrada (Treviño and Álava), the Late Cretaceous terrestrial and marine vertebrates from Laño y Albaina (Treviño), marine invertebrates and vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous of Álava, vertebrates from the Eocene lacustrine deposit of Zambrana (Álava) and Miocene plant and arthropod fossils from Izarra (Álava). The collection, which is fully curated and computer catalogued, is divided into the following four subcollections: fossil invertebrates (comprise 53 %), vertebrates (27 %), bioinclusions in amber (18.5 %) and fossil plants (1.5 %). The museum notably has many unique fossil specimens, including more than 300 primary types. The collection is curated by geologists Jose Carmelo Corral and Rafael López Del Valle.

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 11,044 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:

Corral Arroyo J C, Sáenz J, López Del Valle R, Alonso Ramírez J, Infante Sánchez M (2023). VIT-Paleonthotheca (The Natural History Museum of Alava). Version 1.4. Natural History Museum of Alava (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa). Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.15470/scoumt

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Natural History Museum of Alava (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c7883ca0-7041-4b3f-ab55-f528f4c07e24.  Natural History Museum of Alava (Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natura Zientzien Museoa) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Spain.

Keywords

Occurrence; fossil specimen; Specimen

Contacts

José Carmelo Corral Arroyo
  • Content Provider ●
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Author ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • PhD, Research scientist and curator of fossil plants, invertebrates and vertebrates
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
  • Siervas de Jesús 24
E-01001 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Álava / Araba
ES
  • + 34 945 181924
Javier Sáenz
  • Content Provider ●
  • Originator
  • Independent
Independent
Vitoria-Gasteiz
ES
Rafael López Del Valle
  • Content Provider ●
  • Originator
  • Geology department
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
  • Siervas de Jesús 24
E-01001 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Álava / Araba
ES
  • +34945181924
Jesús Alonso Ramírez
  • Custodian Steward ●
  • Originator
  • Director
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava/Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
  • Siervas de Jesús 24
E-01001 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Álava
ES
  • + 34 945 181924
Marta Infante Sánchez
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Departamento Botánica
Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa
  • Siervas de Jesús 24
E-01001 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Álava / Araba
ES
  • +34945181924

Geographic Coverage

The collection is primarily from Spain with a focus on the autonomous communities of the Basque Country and Castile and León, and to a lesser extent Aragón, Navarra and Cantabria. There are also specimens from Russia, Morocco, France, The United States of America and Belgium.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period The collection dates from the 1980’s to the present.
Living Time Period The collection includes representative material from the Phanerozoic Eon, mainly from the systems Quaternary (~0.3 %), Neogene (~4.2 %), Paleogene (~5.4 %), Cretaceous (~74.6 %) and Jurassic (~13.4 %). Only a few specimens are from the Paleozoic (~2.1 %).

Sampling Methods

No Description available

Method step description:

  1. This dataset contains basic information of about 11 046 records. The taxa of the fossil specimens have been identified to at least the genus level.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 10.15470/scoumt
c7883ca0-7041-4b3f-ab55-f528f4c07e24
https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=vit-paleonthotheca