Type Localities for organisms and fossils first described from Antarctica

doi:10.15468/hc5p0a

Type Localities for organisms and fossils first described from Antarctica

Citation

Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Type Localities for organisms and fossils first described from Antarctica. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/hc5p0a accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-10-22.

Description

This data set lists over 300 organisms (74 taxa are fossils) that were first described from locations either on the Antarctic continent, or on islands immediately to the north of the Antarctic Peninsula. Work was completed in early 2000 and does not contain any newer references. Higher level taxonomy have been checked and completed against the Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG) (http://www.obis.org.au/irmng/). Place name locations taken from the SCAR Composite Gazetteer (http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/).

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Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Dr Dave Watts
technical point of contact
Telephone: +61 (3) 62 323 586
email: Dave.Watts (at) aad.gov.au

Kim Finney
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email: Kim.Finney (at) aad.gov.au

John Gibson
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Telephone: +61 (3) 62 323 495
email: john.gibson (at) utas.edu.au