Yale Vertebrate Paleontology - Online Catalog

73,859 specimen lots available; last updated 4 Jul 2008 05:40:57

Enter terms for fields (e.g., Deinonychus, Wyoming):   TaxonName   AuthorName   HigherRanks   TypeStatus   TypeCitationr   Locality   CollectorDate   Stratigraphy   OtherAttributes Or a catalog number:   CatalogNumber Search terms match whole words rather than substrings No limitations on material Type material only Princeton Univ material only Undetermined material only Sort by Taxon Sort by Locality   You may search the online catalog by specific fields, or for a catalog number. Searches are case-insensitive; by default, any string in a field that contains a term renders that record a match. For example, asking for "margin" will match "Margin," "marginal," "albomarginata," and so forth. You can also ask that terms be matched in their entirety. Prior to searching, characters that are neither numbers or letters are stripped away, and single-character terms discarded (except for catalog number). Terms are and-ed together in the search. Further details about the data appear below. OTHER SEARCHES Anthropology | Botany | Entomology | Herpetology | Historical Scientific Instruments Ichthyology | Invertebrate Paleontology | Invertebrate Zoology | Mammalogy Mineralogy | Ornithology | Paleobotany | Vertebrate Paleontology Additional Notes on the Data All of the catalogued material from the Vertebrate Paleontology collection is available online. CatalogNumber. In the Vertebrate Paleontology collection, taxon lots are catalogued with a one to six digit number (e.g., YPM 10219), occasionally followed by an upper case letter (e.g., YPM 10219A). TaxonName. Any of the latinized names that have been applied to the taxon lot. AuthorName. The author and/or date of publication for an applied taxon name. HigherRanks. The family, order, and/or class of the most recently applied taxon name. TypeStatus. Type specimens include primary, secondary and tertiary types. Primary types are recorded as holotype, syntype, lectotype and neotype; secondary types are recorded as paratype and paralectotype. The term "cotype" has been modified whenever appropriate (e.g., to syntype or paratype). Allotype is used where appropriate. TypeCitation. The authority who applied a given taxon name. Authorities may be either published identifications, or a person's name and date of identification as it appears on the specimen label. Lots for which multiple identifications are recorded will contain repeated name/determination information, in reverse chronological order. In the case of publications, hyperlinks to the full references are available using the "expanded data format" option on the search form. Locality. A composite of the country, state (equivalent), county (or equivalent), place, and latitude & longitude, as available. Latitude & longitude are ordinarily given to the nearest minute. CollectorDate. The name of the collector(s) and the collection date(s). Stratigraphy. Temporal provenience, including bed, member, formation, epoch, age, and/or period. OtherAttributes. Other specimen attributes that are specific to the holdings of the Vertebrate Paleontology collection. A variety of keywords (in italics) that you might wish to use to limit searches are given below. Those listed under "OTHER" are available on the search form as pull-down menu options. PREPARATION: cast, model, mounted, restoration OTHER: TYPE type material; Princeton = specimens originally from the Princeton University collection; undetermined = undetermined material, including specimens specifically indicated as such, and/or specimens determined no further than to the family level. PEABODY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Yale University 170 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520, 203-432-5050 All contents copyright (c) 2007 Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. All rights reserved. Comments to: peabody.webmaster@yale.edu