Paleonet: Online graptolite databases

[John Alroy]

Hi Mike,

That's a very interesting summary!

You might be interested in adding some more information to the entries, such
as the geographic scope of the database and the nature of the data records.

It looks like most of the counts in your list are of specimen records and
(as you've noted) one is for the number of distinct localities including
graptolites.

Meanwhile, the counts for the PaleoDB are of fossil occurrences. That is,
each record shows that a species is present in an individual collection. A
single data record therefore might equate to an individual specimen but also
could pertain to multiple specimens of the same species from the same place.
We do store one-record-per-specimen data, but they're housed in other tables
(one that includes type specimen info and another that tracks measured
specimens).

I'm sorry if this distinction wasn't made clear, and I hope this information
proves to be helpful.

Cheers,

John Alroy
Future Fellow
Department of Biological Sciences
Faculty of Science
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW 2109

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Howe, Michael P.A. <mhowe at bgs.ac.uk> wrote:

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> I've been doing a quick check of the publically available online
> palaeontology databases that included significant numbers of graptolites
> occurrences. Have I missed any major ones?****
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> Mike.****
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> Host  ****
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> Database****
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> Number of graptolites (including dendroids) entered****
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> c/o Fan Junxuan, State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy,
> Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology****
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> Geobiodiversity Database****
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> 18,427****
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> British Geological Survey****
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> PalaeoSaurus****
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> 9,250****
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> c/o John Alroy, Macquarie University****
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> Paleobiology Database****
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> 4,356 ****
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> Natural History Museum, University of Oslo****
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> Paleontological types****
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> 1,854****
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> Oxford University Museum of Natural History****
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> Geology: type, figured and cited database****
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> 1,149****
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> Natural History Museum, London****
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> Palaeontology collection database****
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> 250****
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> American Museum of Natural History****
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> Division of Paleontology****
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> 199****
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> Alaska Paleontological Database****
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> 68*****
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> Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow****
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> Geology Collections Search****
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> 33****
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> National Museum Cardiff****
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> Geology Collection Online: Palaeontology – Holotypes and Lectotypes****
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> 0****
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> * Indicates graptolite localities and not individually named specimens or
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