NCSM Mammals Collection

Ben Norton

doi:doi:10.15468/jkjbew

NCSM Mammals Collection

Citation

Norton B (2016). NCSM Mammals Collection. North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences. Occurrence Dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/jkjbew accessed via GBIF.org on 2017-08-21.

Description

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Mammal Unit collection contains approximately 20,000 specimens and is one of the largest regional mammal collections in the southeast. The collection was accredited in 2000 by the American Society of Mammalogists. With early acquisitions from the Brimley brothers in the late 1800’s, the collection consists of 42% North Carolina, 81% Southeastern United States, 96% United States material, with the remainder having North American or other international origin. It encompasses the taxonomic units of 20 orders, 73 families, 237 genera, and over 500 unique Genus-species combinations. Holdings are especially strong in Rodentia, Soricimorpha, Chiroptera, Carnivora, Cetacea and Sirenia. Important recent acquisitions include University of Kentucky, George Mason University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and personal collections. The collection includes study skins, tanned hides, skulls, complete skeletons, fluid-preserved material, tissues for molecular analyses, and other materials.

Taxonomic Coverages

Animalia
rank: kingdom
Chordata
rank: phylum
Mammalia
rank: class
Artiodactyla
rank: order
Carnivora
rank: order
Cetacea
rank: order
Chiroptera
rank: order
Didelphimorphia
rank: order
Diprotodontia
rank: order
Erinaceomorpha
rank: order
Hyracoidea
rank: order
Lagomorpha
rank: order
Macroscelidea
rank: order
Monotremata
rank: order
Perissodactyla
rank: order
Pholidota
rank: order
Pilosa
rank: order
Primates
rank: order
Proboscidea
rank: order
Rodentia
rank: order
Sirenia
rank: order
Soricomorpha
rank: order
Xenarthra
rank: order

Geographic Coverages

The Mammals collection contains specimens from 38 countries.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Ben Norton
originator
position: Collections Data Curator
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street
Raleigh
27601
NC
US
Telephone: 919-707-9947
email: ben.norton@naturalsciences.org

Ben Norton
metadata author
position: Collections Data Curator
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street
Raleigh
27601
NC
US
Telephone: 919-707-9947
email: ben.norton@naturalsciences.org

Lisa Gatens
administrative point of contact
position: Curator of Mammals
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street
Raleigh
27601
NC
US
Telephone: 919-707-9946
email: lisa.gatens@naturalsciences.org

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

Benjamin Hess
administrative point of contact
position: Collections Manager of Mammals
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
11 West Jones Street
Raleigh
27601
NC
US
Telephone: 919-707-9944
email: benjamin.hess@naturalsciences.org