Collection Details

Type Localities for organisms and fossils first described from Antarctica View list of biodiversity data collections

©Quilty, Patrick 1998 Catalogue id 4766D3 Caption Glossopteris (Fossil) leaf Permian age, Prince Charles Mountains. Photo by R Oldfield Macquarie University. Photographer Oldfield, R

Collection Details

Custodian

John Gibson

Collection Acronym

TYPE

Description

This data set lists over 300 organisms (74 taxa are fossils) that were first described from locations either on the Antarctic continent, or on islands immediately to the north of the Antarctic Peninsula. Work was completed in early 2000 and does not contain any newer references.

Higher level taxonomy have been checked and completed against the Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG) (http://www.obis.org.au/irmng/). Place name locations taken from the SCAR Composite Gazetteer (http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/).

Domain

Terrestrial,Limnetic,Marine

Taxa Groups

List 310 taxa from this collection

Collection Status

Data collection complete

Acknowledgements

No paper - please cite the metadata record.

DiGIR Details

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Resource Code: -	type_localities
Resource Name: -	Type Localities for organisms and fossils first described from Antarctica
Keywords: -	extant, extinct, fossils, type localities
Basis of Record: -	Specimen

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Data Details

Data links

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Map

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Spatial Coverage

54° 28' 59.9" S to 85° 00' 00.0" S	|	-54.4833° to -85.0000°
176° 19' 59.9" W to 174° 00' 00.0" E	|	-176.3333° to 174.0000°

Date Range of Collection

None entered

Metadata

Type_localities - Type Localities for organisms and fossils first described from Antarctica