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Plant Fossil Record

Metadata:
Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: International Organization for Paleobotany
Publication_Date: 2001
Title: Plant Fossil Record
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: maps data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: United Kingdom
Publisher: International Organization for Paleobotany
Other_Citation_Details:
The Field Headings were established by the "Frankfurt Declaration" of IOP in 1990 and the details comprised the first version of this database, PFRI, which was published in 1992.
Online_Linkage:
http://www.biodiversity.org.uk/ibs/palaeo/pfr2/pfr.htm
Description:
Abstract:
Version 2.2 of the Plant Fossil Record (PFR2.2) database includes descriptions and occurrences of more than 10,000 extinct plant genera. Modern genera with fossil species are included in the description database. Names, places and ages can be searched and the occurrences are instantly plotted on a palaeogeographic maps. Patterns of migration and evolution through geological time can be clearly examined to help better understand the history of climatic and environmental change.
Purpose:
The purpose of the Plant Fossil Record database is to provide descriptive details of most plant fossil genera and of those modern genera which have fossil species.
Supplemental_Information:
This information for this metadata was taken from the web site - http://iop.biodiversity.org.uk/. (previous geoform was 'Database')
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates_Times:
Beginning_Date: 1992
Ending_Date: 2001
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: In Work
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Continually
Spatial_Domain:
Description_of_Geographic_Extent: Global
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -180
East_Bounding_Coordinate: 180
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 90
South_Bounding_Coordinate: -90
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Theme_Keyword: database
Theme_Keyword: paleobotany
Theme_Keyword: plant fossils
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Place_Keyword: global
Place_Keyword: world
Taxonomy:
Keywords_Taxon:
Taxonomic_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Taxonomic_Keywords: paleobotany
Taxonomic_Keywords: Gymnospermophyta
Taxonomic_Keywords: Gymnospermophytopsida
Taxonomic_Keywords: Liliopsida
Taxonomic_Keywords: Magnoliopsida
Taxonomic_Keywords: Pteridophyta
Taxonomic_System:
Classification_System_Authority:
Classification_System_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: C.J. Cleal
Publication_Date: 1993
Title: The Fossil Record 2
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: London
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Other_Citation_Details: For pteridophytes and gymnosperms.
Taxonomic_Procedures: unknown
Taxonomic_Completeness: unknown
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Kingdom
Taxon_Rank_Value: Plant
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Division
Taxon_Rank_Value: Gymnospermophyta
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Clealopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Pinopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Division
Taxon_Rank_Value: Gymnospermophytopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Clealopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Cycadopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Gnetopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Lagenostomopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Pinopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Division
Taxon_Rank_Value: Liopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Alismatidae
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Arecidae
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Commelinidae
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Liliidae
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Division
Taxon_Rank_Value: Magnolipsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Asteridae
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Caryophyllidae
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Dilleniidae
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Hamamelididae
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Magnoliidae
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Normapollidae
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Rosidae
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Triprojectidae
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Division
Taxon_Rank_Value: Pteridophyta
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Barinophytopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Equisetopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Filicales
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Filicopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Horneophytopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Lycopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Progymnospermopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Rhyniopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Trimerophytopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Zosterophyllopsida
Taxonomic_Classification:
Taxon_Rank_Name: Class
Taxon_Rank_Value: Zosteropsida
Access_Constraints: none
Use_Constraints: none
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: M.C. Boulter
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing
City: Unknown
Contact_Voice_Telephone: Unknown
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: M.C.Boulter@uel.ac.uk.
Data_Set_Credit:
The data was kindly provided by the following individuals: D. Mai, Berlin; J. Kvacek, Prague; E. Wheeler, North Carolina; J. Eder-Kovar, Vienna; R. Ravn, Alaska; L. Budantsev and O. Lavrenko, Saint Petersburg; L. Fotyanova, Moscow; S. Brown and H. Fisher, London.
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Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
The biological, geological and geographical aspects of these data have been obtained directly from the scientific literature or from museum collections. Please understand that the records have not been checked as "correct" identifications, locations or age determinations, and are as they were published. The user, must take responsibility to justify their reliability. Genus Directory" lists names to help plan search requests.
Logical_Consistency_Report: not applicable
Completeness_Report:
Most valid plant fossil genera published before 1985 are included, as are many informal and other kinds of names. They are all quoted from the literature. Browsing the list gives an overview of the diversity within the plant kingdom through geological time. But be aware that the organs of plant fossils are found separately and so they have different names - one extinct plant may have fossilized parts creating five or more names. This database contains descriptive details of the type specimens of more than 10,000 extinct plant genera. The Field Headings were established by the "Frankfurt Declaration" of IOP in 1990 and the details comprised the first version of this database, PFR1, which was published in 1992. Most Field Headings are blank, and do not show here, and most genera described since 1985 are missing. Please send complete data on new genera to the IOP office.
Lineage:
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The International Organisation of Palaeobotany (IOP) manages this Plant Fossil Record database (PFR). This version, PFR2.2, has descriptive details of most plant fossil genera and of those modern genera which have fossil species. It also has records of some fossil occurrences, taken from the published literature or museum catalogues. The occurrences give geographical and stratigraphical information as well as the name of the author.
Process_Date: Unknown
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Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Indirect_Spatial_Reference: Based on local reference names.
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Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: Plants database
Entity_Type_Definition:
The Field Headings were established by the "Frankfurt Declaration" of IOP in 1990 and the details comprised the first version of this database, PFRI, which was published in 1992.
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: Producer defined
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Descriptions
Attribute_Definition:
This database contains descriptive details of the type specimens of more than 10,000 extinct plant genera. The Field Headings were established by the "Frankfurt Declaration" of IOP in 1990 and the details comprised the first version of this database, PFR1, which was published in 1992. Most Field Headings are blank, and do not show here, and most genera described since 1985 are missing. Please send complete data on new genera to the IOP office.
Attribute_Definition_Source: International Organization of Paleobotany
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: unrepresentable
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Genus
Attribute_Definition:
This "Genus Directory" lists names to help plan search requests. Most valid plant fossil genera published before 1985 are included, as are many informal and other kinds of names. They are all quoted from the literature. Browsing the list gives an overview of the diversity within the plant kingdom through geological time. But be aware that the organs of plant fossils are found separately and so they have different names: one extinct plant may have fossilised parts creating five or more names.
Attribute_Definition_Source: International Organization of Paleobotany
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: unrepresentable
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Occurrences
Attribute_Definition: Occurrences of plant fossils.
Attribute_Definition_Source: International Organization of Paleobotany
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: unrepresentable
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Paleo maps
Attribute_Definition: unknown
Attribute_Definition_Source: International Organization of Paleobotany
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: unrepresentable
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Taxonomy
Attribute_Definition:
This informal system of vascular plant classification is based on C.J. Cleal 1993 ("The Fossil Record 2", Chapman & Hall, London) for pteridophytes and gymnosperms, and on R.K. Brummitt 1992 ("Vascular Plant Families and Genera" Royal Botanic Gardens, 804pp) for angiosperms. Form-genera are those taxa that cannot be assigned to a family or a taxon of higher rank. Clealopsida are informal names for groups referred to in Cleal 1993.
Attribute_Definition_Source: International Organization of Paleobotany
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: unrepresentable
Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
Entity - plant fossils; Associated attrbutes - genera, descriptions, taxomomy, occurrence, paleo maps; also for plant fossil occurrence: genus, species, author, year, age from and age to
Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: unknown
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Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: M.C. Boulter
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing
City: Unknown
Contact_Voice_Telephone: Unknown
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: M.C.Boulter@uel.ac.uk.
Distribution_Liability:
Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the International Organization for Paleobotany, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from a International Organization for Paleobotany server, and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The International Organisation for Paleobotany shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
Standard_Order_Process:
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: comma delimited ASCII
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Online_Option:
Computer_Contact_Information:
Network_Address:
Network_Resource_Name:
http://www.biodiversity.org.uk/ibs/palaeo/pfr2/pfr.htm
Fees: None
Custom_Order_Process: Please contact distributor.
Available_Time_Period:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date_Time:
Calendar_Date: 198509
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Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20010831
Metadata_Future_Review_Date: 20020831
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Cheryl Solomon
Contact_Organization: Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
Contact_Position: Metadata specialist
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 10210 Greenbelt Road, Suite 500
City: Lanham
State_or_Province: Maryland
Postal_Code: 20706
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301 867-2080
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301-867-2149.
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: solomon@gcmd.nasa.gov
Metadata_Standard_Name:
FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001.1-1999
Metadata_Access_Constraints: none
Metadata_Use_Constraints: none
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