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Type Localities for organisms and fossils first described from Antarctica

Australian Antarctic Division
Gibson, J.A. ; GIBSON, JOHN A.E.
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This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=Type_localities when using these data.

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This data set lists over 300 organisms that were first described from locations either on the Antarctic continent, or on islands immediately to the north of the Antarctic Peninsula. Sub-Antarctic islands are not included. Given are the organism name, its taxonomic position, the reference to the first description, the source of the record (contact author for details), whether the organism was a fossil, and whether the initial description was from within the Australian Antarctic Territory.

The fields in this dataset are:
number
genus
species
subspecies/variety
type 1
type 2
type 3
type location
latitude
longitude
reference title
author
journal
volume
page start
page end
year
source
fossil
within AAT

2009-06-18
A link to type localities of species described from fossils has been added to the record.

2023-11-27
On this date a GBIF formatted csv spreadsheet of the data was added to the download file.

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Progress Code: completed
Statement: This data set is incomplete. The dates provided in temporal coverage are approximate only and represent the first and last dates of publication of papers detailing the type specimens, not the dates that the specimens were collected.

Data time period: 1901-01-01 to 1999-12-31

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text: westlimit=-180; southlimit=-90; eastlimit=180; northlimit=-55

Subjects
AMD | AMD/AU | AUTHOR | CEOS | CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA | EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES | EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > INDIGENOUS VEGETATION | EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > MACROFOSSILS | EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > MICROFOSSILS | EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > OCEAN/LAKE RECORDS > MACROFOSSILS | EARTH SCIENCE > PALEOCLIMATE > OCEAN/LAKE RECORDS > MICROFOSSILS | FOSSIL | GENUS | GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR | JOURNAL | LATITUDE | LONGTITUDE | NOT APPLICABLE | NUMBER | PAGE END | PAGE START | REFERENCE TITLE | SOURCE | SPECIES | SUBSPECIES/VARIETY | TYPE 1 | TYPE 2 | TYPE 3 | TYPE LOCATION | VOLUME | WITHIN AAT | YEAR | biota | geoscientificInformation |

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Download page for the data (GET DATA > DIRECT DOWNLOAD)

url : https://data.aad.gov.au/eds/1257/download

Link to fossil type localities (GET DATA > VIRTUAL COLLECTION)

url : http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/display_collection.cfm?collection_id=134

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset (VIEW RELATED INFORMATION)

url : http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=Type_localities

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  • global : Type_localities
ACN 633 798 857