Reflectance Transformation Image of Charniodiscus concentricus, an Ediacaran fossil from Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, UK

Reflectance transformation image of a cast (BGS fossil reference number GSM106161) of the holotype of Charniodiscus concentricus. The original fossil is the property of the Geology Department, University of Leicester, and the fossil is on display at New Walk Museum, Leicester

Date (Creation): 2015-06

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607223

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Ediacaran fauna
data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
Precambrian

dataCentre

data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Begin date: 2015-06-01

End date: 2015-06-30

Reference System Information

No information provided.

Distribution format

Name	Version
Polynomial texture map (.ptm)

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/8f256217-09f1-4807-8357-648f558f3187	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item82490

Hierarchy level: Non geographic dataset

Other: non geographic 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: High resolution digital images were obtained of a cast of the specimen. These were then processed in software to create the reflectance transformation image.