Description
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.
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 318 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.
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:
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
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Research Fellow
- Geology, Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3489-8512
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
- Geology, Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Geographic Coverage
Primarily Ireland, some from United Kingdom, and a minority from elsewhere globally.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Invertebrate, vertebrate and plant fossils
| Phylum | Brachiopoda, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Porifera, Chordata, Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Hemichordata, Tracheophyta |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | Ediacaran to Quaternary |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum Paleontology specimens |
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| 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 |
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| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=tcdgm_paleo |