Databases

• Science: Earth Sciences: Data Centers  (18)

The Paleobiology Database   - A global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic database for marine and terrestrial animals and plants of any geological age, as well as web-based software for statistical analysis of the data.

Alaska Paleontological Database - A searchable fossil database containing published and unpublished fossil records and locality information for the state of Alaska.

Austrofossil - Searchable database on fossils from Austria.

Brachiopod World Database - Comprehensive and searchable database of taxa from around the world.

BUGS - A database of British Coleoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta), including information on habitat, distribution, and fossil occurrence, along with their bibliographic references. Database available for download in Microsoft Access format.

Cleveland Museum of Natural History: Invertebrate Paleontology Collection Database - Allows the user to perform online searches of the database.

fosFARbase - A relational database of lower vertebrates (fish, amphibians, and reptiles) from the Neogene of Eurasia.

Fossil Record 2 - Family level searchable database of fossil organisms. Create your own diversity plots of different groups.

Fossils: An Illustrated Database on French Tertiary Fossils - A scientific collection database of Paleogene (Tertiary) shells, mostly from the Paris basin, with taxonomy and bibliography of all included species.

Goniat - Paleozoic ammonoid database system, Tübingen University, Germany.

Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America - Online biotic database containing images and data for taxa used in analyses of Tropical American biodiversity over the past 25 million years.

Neptune - Neptune is a relational database part of CHRONOS Network. It contains fossil marine plankton records and chronostratigraphy from Deep Sea Drilling Research (DSDP) and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) sites.

PaleoBase On-Line - Databases intended to provide authoritative references for common and stratigraphically important invertebrate macrofossils.

The Paleobiology Database - Provides a searchable database bringing together taxonomic and distributional information on the entire fossil record of plants and animals.

PaleoLink - A relational database for fossils being built at the University of Kansas.

Trace Fossil Image Database - Pictures of trace fossils provided by Anthony Martin at Emory.