Text-based descriptions are essential to good systematics. But this type of information is available in traditional print-based monographs and many standard paleontological reference works (e.g., the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology). PaleoBase databases go beyond this traditional approach to systematic study/analysis in many innovative ways; the most obvious of which is through the extensive use of morphological keys. Place your mouse cursor on the button containing the red key icon and press the mouse button once.

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