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University of California Museum of Paleontology

Specimen Records: 538,669
Media Records: 70,142
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2025-06-23

The mission of the University of California Museum of Paleontology is to investigate and promote the understanding of the history of life and the diversity of the Earth's biota through research and education.

Contacts

Name Joyce Gross
RoleProgrammer
Emailjoyceg@berkeley.edu
Name Joyce Gross
RoleProgrammer
Emailjoyceg@berkeley.edu
Name Patricia Holroyd
RoleMuseum Scientist
Emailpholroyd@berkeley.edu
Name Diane Erwin
RoleSenior Museum Scientist for Paleobotany
Emaildmerwin@berkeley.edu
Name Ashley Dineen
RoleMuseum Scientist for Invertebrate Paleontology
Emailaadineen@berkeley.edu
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i523918
97.262
dwc_datasetid_added  i343183
63.709
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i343183
63.709
dwc_taxonid_added  i343183
63.709
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i343183
63.709
gbif_canonicalname_added  i343183
63.709
gbif_genericname_added  i343183
63.709
gbif_taxon_corrected  i343183
63.709
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i286335
53.156
dwc_phylum_added  i206036
38.249
dwc_multimedia_added  i167703
31.133
gbif_reference_added  i166437
30.898
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i134093
24.893
gbif_vernacularname_added  i133097
24.708
taxon_match_failed  i107137
19.889
dwc_order_replaced  i59707
11.084
dwc_class_replaced  i44760
8.309
dwc_family_replaced  i43236
8.026
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i37631
6.986
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i37038
6.876
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i34952
6.489
dwc_family_added  i31812
5.906
dwc_genus_added  i29115
5.405
dwc_order_added  i28756
5.338
dwc_genus_replaced  i27008
5.014
dwc_kingdom_added  i19630
3.644
dwc_continent_replaced  i14475
2.687
geopoint_datum_missing  i10872
2.018
dwc_kingdom_suspect  i10441
1.938
dwc_phylum_replaced  i8254
1.532
geopoint_datum_error  i7648
1.42
dwc_class_added  i4884
0.907
rev_geocode_eez  i2869
0.533
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i1859
0.345
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i1036
0.192
dwc_taxonremarks_replaced  i461
0.086
rev_geocode_mismatch  i206
0.038
rev_geocode_corrected  i82
0.015
rev_geocode_failure  i72
0.013
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i64
0.012
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i58
0.011
dwc_infraspecificepithet_replaced  i47
0.009
dwc_country_replaced  i42
0.008
rev_geocode_lat_sign  i18
0.003
dwc_specificepithet_added  i7
0.001
geopoint_0_coord  i6
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i6
0.001
dwc_stateprovince_replaced  i2
0
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