VIT-Paleonthotheca (The Natural History Museum of Alava)

José Carmelo Corral Arroyo1, Javier Sáenz2, Rafael López Del Valle1, Jesús Alonso Ramírez3, Marta Infante Sánchez1, Rafael López Del Valle4

1 Museo de Ciencias naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa, Siervas de Jesús 24, E-01001, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; 2 Independent, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; 3 Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava/Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa, Siervas de Jesús 24, E-01001, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; 4 Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava / Arabako Natur Zientzien Museoa, Siervas de Jesús 24, 01001, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Corresponding author(s): José Carmelo Corral Arroyo (corral.arroyo@gmail.com)Javier SáenzRafael López Del ValleJesús Alonso Ramírez (mcna@araba.eus)Marta Infante Sánchez (bazzania.vit@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

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 https://doi.org/10.15470/scoumt

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, fossil specimen, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.gbif.es/resource?r=vit-paleonthotheca

Spatial coverage

General spatial 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.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

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 %).

Methods

Method step description: 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.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive VIT-Paleonthotheca (The Natural History Museum of Alava)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.gbif.es/archive.do?r=vit-paleonthotheca
Publication date of data: 2023-06-02
Language: Spanish
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-03-27
Hierarchy level: Dataset