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Paleobiology Database

This web site hosts information about the entire fossil record, including information about fossil collections, individual plants and animals, taxonomic groups, references to publications, stratigraphic units, time scales, and time intervals. Data Location: paleobiodb.org Data Available: collection, occurrence, specimen records, taxonomic names/opinion, measurements of specimens Comments: Tools are available on...MORE

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Amphibians / Reptiles

Global Pollen Database

This web site hosts data from pollen grains which are accumulated in lakebed sediments and provide records of past vegetation. Data Location: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/gpd.html Datasets Available: Data is organized by collection location: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, North Atlantic Ocean, South America Comments: An additional search engine is provided [...MORE

Neogene Mammals of the Old World (NOW)

This website hosts data containing information about land mammal taxa and locality from the Eurasian Miocene to the Pleistocene. Data Location: http://www.helsinki.fi/science/now/ Data Available: species; location (age, stratigraphy, lithology, taphonomy, environmental interpretation); anatomy; inferred diet; locomotion Comments: Instructions for acquiring the data can be found [ HERE ]. Citation: Fortelius,...MORE

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Early and Middle Triassic Benthic Foraminifers

This data set describes taxonomic diversity and size distibution of benthic foraminifers from a carbonate platform in south China. Dataset Location: Dryad Site Location: Guizhou Province, China Sites Georefferenced: No Data Collected: genus, species, size, substage, age, environment Citation: Payne JL, Summers M, Rego BL, Altiner D, Wei J, Yu...MORE

FAUNMAP

Geographic information on the distribution of late Quaternary mammals of the U.S. Dataset Location: http://www.museum.state.il.us/research/faunmap/aboutfaunmap.html Site(s) Georeferenced: Yes Data collection summary/Methods: Data gathered from the literature Data Available: Information on site names and numbers, location, relative and absolute chronologies, including cultural associations, depositional systems, taphonomic attributes, and mammal species from...MORE

California Estuary Metaweb

This dataset depicts food webs from three North American Pacific Coast Estuaries and includes details regarding parastic characters, body-size, biomass, and ontogeny. Dataset Location: Ecological Archives Site Location: Carpinteria Salt Marsh, CA ; Estero de Punta Banda, Baja California ; Bahia Falsa in Bahia San Quintin, Baja California (Lat/Lon) Sampling...MORE

Animal Movement (Movebank)

This web site stores global data to track the movement of animals. Data Location: http://www.movebank.org/ Sites Georefferenced: Yes Data Available: species, location Citation: Wikelski, M., and Kays, R. 2010. Movebank: archive, analysis and sharing of animal movement data. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.movebank.org , Accessed on <date>.MORE

Amphibians / Reptiles

Florida Coastal Everglades LTER

This web site hosts data from the Florida Coastal Everglades Long Term Ecoogical Research Station in Everglades National Park. Data Location: http://fce.lternet.edu/ Site Location: Florida Everglades Datasets Available: WORKGROUPS - biogeochemical cycling; climate and disturbance; human dimansions; hydrology; modeling and synthesis; organic matter dynamics; primary production; trophic dynamics and community...MORE

AnAge: The Animal Ageing & Longevity Database

This dataset has compiled life history parameters, with a focus on senesence, for a wide variety of taxa, mostly animals, but also including a few plants and fungi. Dataset Location: http://genomics.senescence.info/species/ Data collection summary/Methods: This dataset is a compilation of life history traits from the literature, and other databases, with...MORE

Amphibians / Reptiles

Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program

The Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program was implemented in 1998 with the aim of collecting and analyzing the biological, chemical, and physical data to detect and monitor seasonal and interannual variability in eastern Canadian waters. The AZMP aims to increase the Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans capacity to understand, describe,...MORE