OCCURRENCE

Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum Paleontology specimens (Arctos)

Latest version published by Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum on 29 September 2023 Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum
Paleontological specimens from the Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Geology Museum. The museum houses teaching and research collections, with a focus on Ireland, but there are specimens collected worldwide. The main paleontological holdings include Irish Silurian and Carboniferous invertebrates, Devonian plant fossils, Mesozoic ostracods, Upper Palaeozoic miospores and casts of Mesozoic marine reptiles.
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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 297 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    297
  • Multimedia 
    0

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.

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Data as a DwC-A file download 297 records in English (133 kB) - Update frequency: monthly
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Metadata as an RTF file download in English (8 kB)

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:

Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum Paleontology Collection. Individual catalog records should be cited by the catalog record url: https://arctos.database.museum/guid/TCDGM:Paleo:1

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum. 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: b2d306dc-da1d-46e2-9e8b-7f316fc18677.  Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by National Biodiversity Data Centre.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Una Farrell
Research Fellow
Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum
Geology, Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2 Dublin
IE
https://www.tcd.ie/Geology/people/farrelu/
Patrick Wyse Jackson
Curator
Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum
Geology, Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2 Dublin
IE
https://www.tcd.ie/Geology/people/wysjcknp/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Una Farrell
Research Fellow
Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum
Geology, Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2 Dublin
IE
https://www.tcd.ie/Geology/people/farrelu/
Patrick Wyse Jackson
Curator
Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum
Geology, Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2 Dublin
https://www.tcd.ie/Geology/people/wysjcknp/

Who filled in the metadata:

Una Farrell
Research Fellow
Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum
Geology, Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2 Dublin
IE
https://www.tcd.ie/Geology/people/farrelu/

Who else was associated with the resource:

Programmer
David Bloom
VertNet Coordinator
http://www.vertnet.org
Programmer
John Wieczorek
Information Architect
http://www.vertnet.org
Programmer
Dusty McDonald
Acrtos Database Programmer
https://arctosdb.org/

Geographic Coverage

Primarily Ireland, some from United Kingdom, and a minority from elsewhere globally.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Invertebrate, vertebrate and plant fossils

Phylum  Brachiopoda,  Mollusca,  Arthropoda,  Bryozoa,  Porifera,  Chordata,  Cnidaria,  Echinodermata,  Hemichordata,  Tracheophyta

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period Ediacaran to Quaternary

Collection Data

Collection Name Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum Paleontology specimens
Collection Identifier https://arctos.database.museum/collection/TCDGM:Paleo
Parent Collection Identifier TCDGM

Additional Metadata

Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Alternative Identifiers b2d306dc-da1d-46e2-9e8b-7f316fc18677
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=tcdgm_paleo