Type Localities for organisms and fossils first described from Antarctica

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Australian Antarctic Data Centre on Dec 21, 2023 Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Publication date:
December 21, 2023
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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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) (https://www.irmng.org). Place name locations taken from the SCAR Composite Gazetteer (http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/).

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 312 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Gibson, J.A. (2001) Type Localities for organisms and fossils first described from Antarctica, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Australian Antarctic Data Centre. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 96a14e46-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.  Australian Antarctic Data Centre publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Atlas of Living Australia.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

John A. Gibson
  • Originator
  • Antarctic Ecologist
Australian Antarctic Division
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DATA OFFICER AADC
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  • Point Of Contact
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Australian Antarctic Division
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Johnathan Kool
  • Curator

Geographic Coverage

Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

Bounding Coordinates South West [-85, -176.333], North East [-54.483, 174]

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 96a14e46-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=type_localities