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If you have a question about specimens or other information found in your database search, please contact the responsible scientific section. You will find a link to each section's Web site and to the Scientific Staff Directory in the navigation bar on the left side of the screen.

Successful searches produce a tabular specimen list that can be further explored to find complete specimen data including images (if available).  

Display records per page (999 max) Select the maximum number of lines in each page on your tabular report. Searches can produce thousands of records and limiting the results into smaller "pages" makes it easier for some computers to handle the volume. Enter a number between 1 and 999.

Indicate if online images are available This checkbox adds a yes/no column to the report indicating the availability of images.

Choose search criteria These list boxes display field data and contain a single instance of all values within that field. Field values are sorted in ascending order. Use the scroll bars to browse the list. Highlight a field with a mouse-click to include it in the search and tabular report. Hold down the Ctrl or Shift key to highlight and make multiple selections; clicking an already highlighted item with the Ctrl key will unselect it. Use as few selection boxes as possible to your advantage. Making multiple selections in multiple fields can falsely report that data is unavailable. For instance, only use one taxon list box to find specimen data and add other taxon fields to the tabular report with the column/sort options (see below).
Class:	(list all) ? ACANTHODII AGNATHA AMPHIBIA AMPHIBIA & REPTILIA AMPHIBIA? ARTHROPODA AVES AVES? REPTILIA? CHONDRICH/PLACODERMI CHONDRICHTHYES CHONDRICHTHYES ETC FISH? INDET INVERTEBRATA MAMMALIA MAMMALIA ETC MAMMALIA? MINERAL MOLLUSCA OSTEICHTHYES OSTEICHTHYES? PISCES PISCES ETC. PISCES? PLACODERMI PLANT REPTILIA REPTILIA? ROCK UNIDENTIFIED VEGETATION VERTEBRATA	Group:	(list all) ADMIRE ALLEGHENY AMSDEN ARARIPE SERIES ARIKAREE BEAUFORT BIG SNOWY BOZEMAN CANADAWAY CHEMUNG CLEAR FORK COCOBEACH SERIES CONEMAUGH CONEMAUGH, LOWER CUTLER DES MOINES SERIES DOCKUM DOCKUM? DUNKARD FORT UNION HAMADIENNES SERIES HEADON SERIES JUDITH RIVER LAMETA LO FOCHAI LOWER RED LOWER RED MARL LOWER ROTLIEGEND MADERA MANCOS MARNES A TRIPOLIS MCLEANSBORO MONONGAHELA NEWARK SERIES NEWARK SUPERGROUP NOT APPLICABLE PHOSPHATE SERIES PRINCETON ROTLIEGEND ROTLIEGEND, UPPER SANTA FE SHUANG-TA-SI SIWALIK, LOWER SIWALIK, MIDDLE SIWALIK, UPPER STEPHENSPORT TRINITY UPPER BORDER VIEJA VIEJA and BUCK HILL WHITE RIVER WICHITA

Set column/sort order (optional) Identify the columns in the report. Highlight a number in one or more of these boxes to include that field in the report. The number value serves in two ways: to position the field column and sort the data using lowest number value as the primary key. By default, catalog numbers occupy the first column and are used as the primary sort key if no boxes in this section are selected.
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Class	01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Group	01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Epoch

New Search Form Always use the "Search" button to begin the search. Pressing the Enter key is unpredictable. At least one selection in either the list boxes or column/sort boxes must be made. "New Search Form" refreshes this page to it's initial values.