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278 datasets found

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Chagos Coral Collection at the NHM London

The Natural History Museum, London, holds a collection of >6000 specimens of dry-preserved hard (mainly scleractinian) corals from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean...
Andrew Cabrinovic; Miranda Lowe; Kenneth Johnson; Natalina Bonassera; Mia Williams; Charles Sheppard Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Supplementary Material: Surface Sediment Samples From Early Age of Seafloor E...

Ocean-floor sediment samples collected up to 150 years ago represent an important historical archive to benchmark global changes in the seafloor environment, such as species'...
Marina Costa Rillo; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard; Giles Miller Research Creative Commons Attribution

Baleen stable isotope data

This dataset contains d13C and d15N stable isotope data from northern hemisphere rorqual whale (Balaenoptera) baleen taken from our collections. This includes data from the...
Clive N. Trueman; Andrew Jackson; Katharyn S Chadwick; Ellen J Coombs et al. Research Creative Commons Attribution

Platypleurini phylogeny

Data Supporting: Out of Africa? A dated molecular phylogeny of the cicada tribe Platypleurini Schmidt (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), with a focus on African genera and the genus...
Benjamin Price; David C Marshall; Nigel P Barker; Chris Simon; Martin H Villet Research Creative Commons CCZero

The Charles Lyell fossil collection at the Natural History Museum

Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) is one of the most important geologists of all time and was the pioneer of the principle of uniformitarianism. He was able to see that the present...
Consuelo Sendino Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Lyell Collection - Types and figured and cited specimens

Types and cited specimens included in the Fossil Lyell Collection (group; type status; identification; and reference).
Consuelo Sendino Collections Creative Commons Attribution

The Fossil Historical Collections

There are three historical collections in the Palaeontology which have great importance for the history of the NHM. These are the Sloane, König and Pennant Collections. Over 100...
Consuelo Sendino Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Phthiraptera collection

The Phthiraptera collection comprises the records of all the slide-mounted parasitic lice material at the Natural History Museum, London. It includes the main collection and the...
Olha Shchedrina; Louise Allan; Paul Andrew Brown; Laurence Livermore; Vincent Smith Collections Creative Commons CCZero

3D Cetacean Scanning

3D scans of ten Cetacean skulls collected between 1873 and 2007. The dataset contains both baleen and toothed whales including Physeter macrocephalus (a sperm whale) the largest...
Richard C Sabin; Kaitlyn Burton; Natalie Cooper; Anjali Goswami Collections Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Al Sabouni et al Reproducibility

The data required to run the analyses in Al Sabouni et al "Reproducibility of species recognition in modern planktonic foraminifera and its implications for measures of...
Isabel Fenton Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Insect Pollinators Archive

An up to date dataset of the Insect Pollinators Initiative, A multi-institution initiative with the NHM, BBSRC and The University of Edinburgh. The archive is held at the...
Graham N Stone; Alfried Vogler; Adam Vanbergen; Jacqueline Mackenzie-Dodds Research Creative Commons Attribution

Xenophyophores

Xenophyophores, giant foraminifera, are distinctive members of the deep-sea megafauna that accumulate large masses of waste material (‘stercomare’) within their agglutinated...
Andrew Gooday; Dan Sykes; Adrian Glover Collections License not specified

Fenton et al Reproducibility

The data required to run the analyses in Fenton et al "Factors affecting consistency and accuracy in identifying modern macroperforate planktonic foraminifera".
Isabel Fenton Research Open Data Commons Attribution License

Maddock_montanus

Hypogeophis DNA alignments
Simon Maddock; Mark Wilkinson; David J Gower Research License not specified

Morelloid clade of Solanum in Brazil

Dataset of specimen and localities of Brazilian species of the Morelloid clade of Solanum (black nightshades)
Sandra Knapp Collections Creative Commons Attribution

Conodont collection database

The database provides information on discrete sub-collections within the conodont collection housed at the Natural History Museum, London. It includes generic, specific and...
Natural History Museum Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Jins_Uropeltidae

Uropeltidae mtDNA alignments and morphological data
V J Jins; F L Sampaio; David J Gower Research License not specified

Eggplant wild relative plastome phylogeny

The data set comprises the original data files and scripts used to generate analyses in the publication Aubriot X, Knapp S, Syfert MM, Poczai P, Buerki S (2018) Shedding new...
Xavier Aubriot Research Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

Moth Ultraviolet Reflectance Survey

The moth ultraviolet (UV) reflectance survey dataset is constituted of images showing the portion above 360 nm of the UVA reflection of specimens belonging to 176 moth species....
Elisa Cane; Jonathan Laventhol; Sophie Ledger Collections Creative Commons CCZero

Crania and mandible data from 'river dolphins' and other odontocetes

Landmark data from odontocete skulls, plus associated metadata, used in Page CE, Cooper N. (2017) Morphological convergence in ‘river dolphin’ skulls. PeerJ 5:e4090...
Charlotte E Page; Natalie Cooper Research Creative Commons Attribution

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