Fossil and Subfossil Mammal Collection

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 6,169 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2025). Fossil and Subfossil Mammal Collection. Version 1.22. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=nmnhs_paleozoology_fossi_mammals_anthrop&v=1.22

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b480eb15-6af9-48af-8104-f6dd575d8452.  National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Metadata; fossils; fossil mammals; anthropology; Specimen

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Bulgaria

Taxonomic Coverage

Vertebrate animals

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a new world-class Research Infrastructure (RI) for natural science collections. The DiSSCo RI works for the digital unification of all European natural science assets under common curation and access policies and practices. These aim to make the data easily Findable, more Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). As such, DiSSCo enables the transformation of a fragmented landscape of the crucial natural science collections into an integrated knowledge base that provides interconnected hard evidence on the natural world. DiSSCo represents the largest ever formal agreement between natural history museums, botanical gardens and collection-holding universities in the world. Mission Our mission is to bring up the major Bulgarian biodiversity collections into the Digital Era. As a part of the pan-European DiSSCo RI, we adhere at its mission, which is entirely valid for the present project. It is “to mobilise, unify and deliver biodiversity information at the scale, form and precision required by scientific communities; transforming a fragmented landscape into a coherent and responsive research infrastructure.” Taking into account the specificities of the conceptual and technological level of our collections, we formulate the following mission of DiSSCo- BG: to bring up the major Bulgarian biodiversity collections into the Digital Era. General objective Upgrade the technological, digital and human capacity level of the major biodiversity and geodiversity collections in Bulgaria maintained by IBER-BAS and NMNHS-BAS in order to increase the capacity of collections and collection-based research to meet the needs of the society of modern biodiversity science in line with the existing international standards and to support the efficient Bulgarian participation in the development of the pan-European RI DiSSCo.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

The specimens were obtained through donations from collectors, staff fieldwork, and exchange with collections of institutions abroad.

Method step description:

1. During the digitization process, each specimen, upon its first entering in the Paleozoological database, receives automatically a new unique catalogue number using the following format: BG-NMNHS-PZO-############. The old catalogue number as saved as an alternative catalog number.
2. The information found on the labels, such as old catalogue number, taxon name, locality, date of collection, and the names of collectors and determiners, was transcribed and translated into English before being entered into the database. Names of localities and administrative regions were transliterated using the Bulgarian Law for Transliteration.
3. To export records from the parent collection BG-NMNHS-PZO that corresponds to this collection, the following rule was used: (1) catalogers' surname is among: Karastoyanova, Nikolov, Nikolova, Spasov. (2) taxonomic class = 'Mammalia'

Collection Data

Additional Metadata