Virginia Museum of Natural History earth science/paleoclimate/repository STUDY NOTES: Repository of invertebrates. The 46,000+ lots of Mollusca are represented by 800,000 cataloged specimens, including 287 primary types. This collection is one of the most significant in the Zoology Section and within the top 15 North American museums. Dating back to the early 1900s, it arose from the collecting efforts of one of the museum's founders, Junius Henderson. The mollusc collection is worldwide in scope, about half marine species, a quarter freshwater species, and the remainder terrestrial forms. KEYWORDS: core, climate, material, fossils, vertebrate, global, well, invertebrate, collections, samples, change DISCIPLINE KEYWORDS: Museums/Centers/Universities, paleontology, geosciences CONTENT KEYWORDS: Biodiversity, invertebrate, Paleontology, vertebrate, Vertebrate, Invertebrate, biodiversity, archaeology, data, Archaeology, Resources. This resource description was produced with support from the NSF project entitled "EarthCube RCN: C4P: Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences," (NSF ICER-1340301) under the direction of Kerstin A. Lehnert, Mark Uhen, John W. Williams, Christopher J. Jenkins NCDC-Paleoclimatology https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data - Bauer Bruce 2014-09-03 ONLINE Files online, ASCII http://www.vmnh.net/collections http://www.vmnh.net/collections http://www.vmnh.net/collections English http://www.vmnh.net/collections http://www.vmnh.net/collections