The Lyell Collection at the Earth Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, London (UK)

Main Author: Sendino, Consuelo
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Terbitan: Pensoft Publishers , 2019
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author Sendino, Consuelo
title The Lyell Collection at the Earth Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, London (UK)
publisher Pensoft Publishers
publishDate 2019
topic Sir Charles Lyell
Macaronesia
Canaries
Madeira
Cenozoic
digitisation
collection
url https://zenodo.org/record/2578487
contents This paper provides a quantitative and general description of the Lyell Collection kept in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum of London. This collection started to be built by the eminent British geologist Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) in 1846 when the first specimen reached the Museum. The last one entered in 1980 donated by one of Lyell's heirs. There are more than 1700 specimens, mainly hand specimens with 93% of the fauna and flora from the Cenozoic of the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Canaries and Madeira. Those specimens that belong to the Lyell Collection with certainty have been databased and imaged. Currently they are being geo-referred automatically with the rest of the site geo-references at the NHM. This collection could be increased by a couple of dozen more specimens with those specimens located in the same drawers, but they do not have collector details. The work of data collection of these specimens was implemented over a year from 2016 to 2017, including annelids; brachiopods; bryozoans; echinoderms; scyphozoans; bivalves; gastropods; scaphopods; trilobites; plants; reptiles; fishes; and mammals. Access to the specimen-level data is available through the NHM data portal with the images associated. This is the first time that a description of the Fossil Lyell Collection dataset is available in the literature.
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