The Natural History Museum Fossil Porifera Collection
This article provides updated information about the Porifera Collection at The Natural History Museum (NHM), London. With very little information available regarding fossil sponge digitization or any similar initiative, this paper covers the type and figured specimens and drawer label content data o...
Published in: | Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals |
---|---|
Main Author: | |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
Published: |
SAGE Publications
2020
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1550190620964042 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1550190620964042 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1550190620964042 |
id |
crsagepubl:10.1177/1550190620964042 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
crsagepubl:10.1177/1550190620964042 2023-05-15T14:07:58+02:00 The Natural History Museum Fossil Porifera Collection Sendino, Consuelo 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1550190620964042 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1550190620964042 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1550190620964042 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals volume 16, issue 4, page 363-380 ISSN 1550-1906 General Medicine journal-article 2020 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1550190620964042 2022-04-14T04:50:49Z This article provides updated information about the Porifera Collection at The Natural History Museum (NHM), London. With very little information available regarding fossil sponge digitization or any similar initiative, this paper covers the type and figured specimens and drawer label content data of the Porifera Collection and also describes the collection and its research potential. With approximately 71,000 specimens, of which more than 60% are Mesozoic, the NHM holdings offer the best Mesozoic sponge collection in the world and one of the most important due to its breadth and depth. The Porifera Collection covers all stratigraphic periods and all taxonomic groups and includes almost 3000 cited and figured specimens including types. Although most of the specimens come from the British Isles, worldwide samples are also present, with abundant specimens from other Commonwealth countries and from Antarctica. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 16 4 363 380 |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
SAGE Publications (via Crossref) |
op_collection_id |
crsagepubl |
language |
English |
topic |
General Medicine |
spellingShingle |
General Medicine Sendino, Consuelo The Natural History Museum Fossil Porifera Collection |
topic_facet |
General Medicine |
description |
This article provides updated information about the Porifera Collection at The Natural History Museum (NHM), London. With very little information available regarding fossil sponge digitization or any similar initiative, this paper covers the type and figured specimens and drawer label content data of the Porifera Collection and also describes the collection and its research potential. With approximately 71,000 specimens, of which more than 60% are Mesozoic, the NHM holdings offer the best Mesozoic sponge collection in the world and one of the most important due to its breadth and depth. The Porifera Collection covers all stratigraphic periods and all taxonomic groups and includes almost 3000 cited and figured specimens including types. Although most of the specimens come from the British Isles, worldwide samples are also present, with abundant specimens from other Commonwealth countries and from Antarctica. |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Sendino, Consuelo |
author_facet |
Sendino, Consuelo |
author_sort |
Sendino, Consuelo |
title |
The Natural History Museum Fossil Porifera Collection |
title_short |
The Natural History Museum Fossil Porifera Collection |
title_full |
The Natural History Museum Fossil Porifera Collection |
title_fullStr |
The Natural History Museum Fossil Porifera Collection |
title_full_unstemmed |
The Natural History Museum Fossil Porifera Collection |
title_sort |
natural history museum fossil porifera collection |
publisher |
SAGE Publications |
publishDate |
2020 |
url |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1550190620964042 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1550190620964042 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1550190620964042 |
genre |
Antarc* Antarctica |
genre_facet |
Antarc* Antarctica |
op_source |
Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals volume 16, issue 4, page 363-380 ISSN 1550-1906 |
op_rights |
http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.1177/1550190620964042 |
container_title |
Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals |
container_volume |
16 |
container_issue |
4 |
container_start_page |
363 |
op_container_end_page |
380 |
_version_ |
1766280000792690688 |