A computerised bibliography and index of fossil corals from Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and Antarctica
Compiled by John Pickett
Research Associate, Geological Survey of New South Wales, P.O. Box 76, Lidcombe NSW 2141, Australia; picketj@cherry.com.au
In July 1978 Dorothy Hill published her "Bibliography and Index of Australian Palaeozoic Corals". That publication forms the point of origin for the present database, and its format has largely dictated the way in which OZCORALS has been put together. Several new features have been introduced, and the use of Microsoft Access as a platform has afforded a flexibility in working with data that was not possible in the printed version. It was developed using Windows 95™ and Microsoft Access 97™, on a Toshiba Satellite™ laptop.
Version 1 expanded the scope of the database to cover the whole of the Phanerozoic, and, as well as Australia, to include New Zealand, New Guinea and Antarctica. In Version 1 the tables cover some 535 names in the genus-group, 1195 in the species group, and 514 bibliographic references.
Version 2 includes an additional 61 bibliographic items, 45 additional genera, and 83 additional species, plus an increased number of ways of accessing the data.
Information included:
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All known taxa at species and genus level |
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All citations for taxa of species-group |
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Bibliography of all known publications |
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Number and location of type material |
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Locality details |
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Retrieval by current and original genus assignment |
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Sorting of both genera and species by higher taxa (e.g. Tabulata, Scleractinia) |
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Aid to palaeogeographic analysis by quoting country of type species |
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Literature retrieved by subject matter, country, and age |
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Complete bibliographies for the doyens of Australian coral workers Dorothy Hill and Robert Etheridge |
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