Perot Museum of Nature and Science

Karen Morton

doi:10.15468/yfjsdn

Perot Museum of Nature and Science

Citation

Morton K (2016). Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Version 6.1. Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/yfjsdn accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-02-08.

Description

The Perot Museum of Nature and Science maintains several natural history collections, ranging from ancient specimens in our paleontology and geology collections to recent zoological specimens such as birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects and shells. We also maintain the Mudge Library, a large collection of rare and important ornithological and zoological books, as well as the Museum's own collection records and historical archives. The collections of the Perot Museum were begun by the Dallas Museum of Natural History in the 1930s. With approximately 100,000 specimens currently catalogued, we continue to grow and expand the collection in support of ongoing research projects and discoveries. Collections are housed at both the Victory Park and Fair Park locations, where they are cared for by Karen Morton, our collections manager.

Additional info

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Taxonomic Coverages

The Perot Museum of Nature and Science maintains several natural history collections in paleontology, geology, ornithology, mammals, herpetology, and invertebrates. Our current online resource only covers ornithology and the colubrid snakes from our herpetology collection. Additional taxons will be added in the future.

Aves
common name: Birds rank: class
Colubridae
common name: Colubrid snakes rank: family

Geographic Coverages

The majority of our collection is from the southwestern US and Mexico, however, we do have a limited number of specimens collected from other parts of the world.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Karen Morton
originator
position: Collections Manager
Perot Museum of Nature and Science
2201 N. Field Street
Dallas
75201-1704
TX
US
email: Karen.Morton@perotmuseum.org
homepage: http://www.perotmuseum.org/explore-the-museum/collections/index.html

Karen Morton
metadata author
position: Collections Manager
Perot Museum of Nature and Science
2201 N. Field Street
Dallas
75201-1704
TX
US
email: Karen.Morton@perotmuseum.org
homepage: http://www.perotmuseum.org/explore-the-museum/collections/index.html

David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet Programmer
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org

David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet Coordinator
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org

John Wieczorek
programmer
position: Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
email: tuco@berkeley.edu

Karen Morton
administrative point of contact
position: Collections Manager
Perot Museum of Nature and Science
2201 N. Field Street
Dallas
75201-1704
TX
US
email: Karen.Morton@perotmuseum.org
homepage: http://www.perotmuseum.org/explore-the-museum/collections/index.html