Museum of Northern Arizona – Petrified Forest National Park Collection (MNA-PEFO)
The Museum of Northern Arizona Petrified Forest National Park Collection, (MNA-PEFO), is an important collection of both specimens and associated images of arthropods within Petrified Forest National Park on the Colorado Plateau. The MNA houses over 300,000 arthropod specimens, collected over a span of 100 years, primarily from the western United States. The MNA is working on projects related to matters of ecology, conservation and biodiversity for National Parks and National Monuments. The goal of the MNA-PEFO collection, on behalf of the National Park Service and the MNA, is to represent material relevant to ecologists, taxonomists, conservationists and the public.
Contact: Gary D. Alpert or Tanner Carothers (galpert@musnaz.org or tscaroth@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 54371ec6-eead-41b2-90b9-63120b184448
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)
Collection Statistics
- 21 occurrence
- 18 (86%) georeferenced
- 21 (100%) with images
- 9 (43%) identified to species
- 14 families
- 14 genera
- 9 species
- 9 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
