Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum Paleontology specimens (Arctos)

Una Farrell; Patrick Wyse Jackson

doi:10.15468/7zbw5w

Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum Paleontology specimens (Arctos)

Citation

Farrell U, Wyse Jackson P (2025). Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum Paleontology specimens (Arctos). Version 1.25. Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/7zbw5w accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-07-20.

Description

Paleontological specimens from the Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Geology Museum. The museum houses teaching and research collections, with a focus on Ireland, but there are specimens collected worldwide. The main paleontological holdings include Irish Silurian and Carboniferous invertebrates, Devonian plant fossils, Mesozoic ostracods, Upper Palaeozoic miospores and casts of Mesozoic marine reptiles.

Sampling Description

Method steps

Additional info

Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Taxonomic Coverages

Invertebrate, vertebrate and plant fossils

Brachiopoda
rank: phylum
Mollusca
rank: phylum
Arthropoda
rank: phylum
Bryozoa
rank: phylum
Porifera
rank: phylum
Chordata
rank: phylum
Cnidaria
rank: phylum
Echinodermata
rank: phylum
Hemichordata
rank: phylum
Tracheophyta
rank: phylum

Geographic Coverages

Primarily Ireland, some from United Kingdom, and a minority from elsewhere globally.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Una Farrell
originator
position: Research Fellow
Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum
Geology, Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin
Dublin 2
IE
email: una.farrell@gmail.com
homepage: https://www.tcd.ie/Geology/people/farrelu/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3489-8512

Patrick Wyse Jackson
originator
position: Curator
Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum
Geology, Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin
Dublin 2
IE
email: wysjcknp@tcd.ie
homepage: https://www.tcd.ie/Geology/people/wysjcknp/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5605-0670

Una Farrell
metadata author
position: Research Fellow
Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum
Geology, Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin
Dublin 2
IE
email: una.farrell@gmail.com
homepage: https://www.tcd.ie/Geology/people/farrelu/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3489-8512

David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet Coordinator
VertNet
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
homepage: http://www.vertnet.org

Dusty McDonald
programmer
position: Acrtos Database Programmer
Arctos
email: dustymc@gmail.com
homepage: https://arctosdb.org/

Una Farrell
administrative point of contact
position: Research Fellow
Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum
Geology, Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin
Dublin 2
IE
email: una.farrell@gmail.com
homepage: https://www.tcd.ie/Geology/people/farrelu/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3489-8512

Patrick Wyse Jackson
administrative point of contact
position: Curator
Trinity College Dublin Geological Museum
Geology, Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin
Dublin 2
email: wysjcknp@tcd.ie
homepage: https://www.tcd.ie/Geology/people/wysjcknp/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5605-0670