Commonwealth Palaeontological Collection - Physical  

Authors / CoAuthors

Laurie, J.R.

Abstract

This entails publishing a formal analysis which, under the International Codes of Zoological and Botanical Nomenclature, must be accompanied by illustrations of specimens. These illustrated specimens can then become the 'ype specimens'. The type specimen acts as a reference upon which the understanding of each species relies. So, if any subsequent research worker wants to compare their material with, or to assign their material to a known species, the concept of that species is dependent on the type specimens and the research worker must refer to those type specimens.

Product Type

dataset

eCat Id

73643

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Keywords

• Resource

( Theme )

• geoscience

( Theme )

• palaeontology

( Theme )

• fossil

( Theme )

• geoscience education

( Theme )

• dating

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

• Earth Sciences

• Published_Internal

Publication Date

1927-01-01T00:00:00

Creation Date

Security Constraints

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem    

Classification - unclassified

Legal Constraints

Restrictive GA Licence (please provide TRIM link)

Access - restricted

Use - license

Status

Purpose

Maintenance Information

irregular

Topic Category

geoscientificInformation

Series Information

Lineage

Most fossils are sourced from Australia with some from Papua New Guinea, Antarctica, New Zealand and from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP). A locality card system has been scanned (mostly). These cards show a variety of approaches for determining the location such as; lat/long, drawings, aerial photograph location, well/drillhole sample depth etc.. This national collection is the biggest of its kind in Australia and is currently three times the size of the next largest collection.

Parent Information

Extents

[-90.0, 90.0, -180.0, 180.0]

Reference System

Spatial Resolution

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Source Information

Fossils have been collected through work performed by Geoscience Australia and researchers in other organisations. When a fossil is analysed and named, the work MUST be published for it to have any validity and precedence. For it to be published, the specimens used (the type specimens) MUST be registered in a valid collection and MUST be curated in perpetuity. It is these type specimens which act as the SOLE series of reference specimens for fossil species. The Commonwealth Palaeontological Collection (CPC) is such a collection. -180.0 180.0 -90.0 90.0