Species occurrences of Mesozoic and Paleogene Testudinata in time and space (NERC grant NE/J020613/1)

The data consist of several spreadsheets detailing the temporal and geographical distributions of testudinates (turtles, terrapins and tortoises) through time. Occurrence data includes information on taxonomy, geographical distribution and geological age and is limited to Mesozoic-Paleogene taxa. These data were compiled from the published literature on fossil turtles for NERC Standard Grant NE/J020613/1. These data form the basis for understanding the role of changing global climates and geography on testudinate diversity and distribution though time, with the aim of providing historical baseline data for modern conservation biology. The data represent a summary over 150 years of published research on fossil turtles and their relatives and were compiled over a period of 3.5 years during the tenure of a grant. To date they have provided the data used in analyses presented by Nicholson et al. (2015, 2016) and Waterson et al. (2016). Details of the analyses and the results obtained can be found in these papers.

Date (Creation): 2016-08-31

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607116

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Natural History Museum	Paul Barrett	not available	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Mesozoic
Palaeogene
NGDC Deposited Data

dataCentre

NGDC Deposited Data

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations

Other constraints: The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints: Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: WORLD [id=100000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

Begin date: 2013-03-01

End date: 2016-08-31 After

Supplemental Information: Our entries to the online database can be queried using the search terms “Mesozoic”, “Paleogene” and “Testudinata”. Our entries to the database are identified by the names of the relevant project members D. Nicholson and P. Holroyd. NERC grant split award, lead grant NE/J020613, associated grants NE/J020583/1 and NE/J020389/1

Reference System Information

No information provided.

Distribution format

Name	Version

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8848#supplementary-information

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/11/160581.figures-only

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/283/1839/20161408.figures-only

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://fossilworks.org/

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://paleobiodb.org/

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item74069

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: Source data on testudinate distribution in time and space for the Mesozoic-Paleogene was obtained from the published literature (mid-nineteenth century to date); These data were checked for accuracy, transcribed and uploaded to an online publicly accessible database by project members ( http://fossilworks.org/ and https://paleobiodb.org/); Data files were downloaded in Excel/csv format from this online dataset for analysis.