Macrofossils
 

 
Welcome to the Natural History Museum (London) and Blackwell Publishing Ltd's PaleoBase Macrofossils


PaleoBase databases are intended to provide an authoritative reference and teaching resource for common and stratigraphically important invertebrate macrofossils, microfossils and deep sea benthic foraminifera.

In essence, PaleoBase represents a coupling of a world-class paleontological collection - the invertebrate macrofossil collections of The Natural History Museum (London)- and the knowledge of world-renowned experts on various fossil groups, presented in a state-of-the-art Compustrat relational database.

Moreover, PaleoBase uses innovative digital imaging techniques (developed by The Natural History Museum's PalaeoVision program) to illustrate fossil morphologies in the clearest and most accurate manner possible. These features are unique among commercially-available paleontological databases and place PaleoBase well ahead of its competitors. In addition, the scope, data storage/retrieval illustration, searching, and upgrade capabilities of Compustrat relational databases make them superior to the technical monographs that have served as the basis for paleontological systematics for generations. As such, PaleoBase represents what most systematists believe will be the future of paleontological systematics.

PaleoBase databases include:

Part 1 - Arthropods, Brachiopods, Bryozoa, Trace Fossils and Graptolites
Part 2 - Molluscs and Problematica
Part 3 - Echinoderms, Sponges, Cnidaria

PaleoBase: Microfossils

PaleoBase: Deep Sea Benthic Foraminifera

Welcome to PaleoBase. Welcome to the future of the past.

[Note: Expected release date for PaleoBase: Macrofossils Part 3 Is August 2007 and July 2007 for PaleoBase: Deep Sea Benthic Formanifera. See Latest News on Publication for further details]

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