OC Parks – County of Orange Paleontological and Archaeological Collection

http://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=ocpc OC Parks – County of Orange Paleontological and Archaeological Collection Will Gelnaw, Ph.D. Dr. John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center Paleontology Curator

William.Gelnaw@ocparks.com Meena Madan Dr. John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center Paleontology Specialist

meena.madan@ocparks.com Justin Sikora Dr. John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center Justin.Sikora@ocparks.com 2020-12-03 eng The County of Orange’s collection at the John D. Cooper Center currently contains over six million artifacts and fossils, and is growing every year as new finds are donated. As stewards of the collection, OC Parks is committed to the preservation, curation, and management of the fossils and artifacts within the County for the purpose of scientific research, outreach, and education. The rocks of Orange County contain the fossilized remains of plants and animals from every major time period since the Jurassic – over 180 million years of prehistory. At this point, only a small fraction of the collection has been inventoried - about 20,000 specimens out of an estimated 3,000,000 or more from over 1,000 localities. Notable collections include: Eocene terrestrial mammals, late Oligocene-early Miocene terrestrial mammals, and Miocene-Pliocene marine mammals. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Specimen GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction. Orange County, California, USA -180 180 90 -90 unkown Justin Sikora Dr. John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center Justin.Sikora@ocparks.com 2018-07-10T08:50:27.701-04:00 dataset http://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?id=ocpc/v1.5.xml