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Online paleontology databases are the newest way to share paleontological information. Included in this category are a variety of databases dealing with the taxonomy, ecology, and geological ranges of ancient organisms.

Subcategories

• Collections
• Paleobotany
• References
• Vertebrate

Resources in This Category

• Alaska Paleontological Database

  http://www.alaskafossil.org/
  A searchable fossil database containing published and unpublished fossil records and locality information for the state of Alaska.

• BUGS

  http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/insect.html
  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.

• fosFARbase

  http://www.wahre-staerke.com/
  A relational database of lower vertebrates (fish, amphibians, and reptiles) from the Neogene of Eurasia.

• Fossils: An Illustrated Database on French Tertiary Fossils

  http://www.somali.asso.fr/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

  http://www.goniat.org/
  Designed as a tool for investigations of the Paleozoic ammonoids, their paleogeographic distribution and their biostratigraphic range.

• Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America

  http://porites.geology.uiowa.edu/
  Online biotic database containing images and data for taxa used in analyses of Tropical American biodiversity over the past 25 million years.

• PaleoLink

  http://www.paleo.ku.edu/paleolink.html
  A relational database for fossils being built at the University of Kansas.

• Stratigraphy.Net

  http://www.stratigraphy.net/
  Stratigraphy.Net aims to provide free and open access to geoscientific information and data with special emphasis on the disciplines of stratigraphy, paleontology and sedimentology.

• The Paleobiology Database

  http://paleodb.org/
  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.

• The Paleobiology Database

  http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl
  Provides a searchable database bringing together taxonomic and distributional information on the entire fossil record of plants and animals.

• Trace Fossil Image Database

  http://www.envs.emory.edu/faculty/MARTIN/ichnology/images.htm
  Pictures of trace fossils provided by Anthony Martin at Emory.

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