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THE INTERNATIONAL FOSSIL PLANT NAMES INDEX (IFPNI) #36

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gbif-portal commented 7 years ago

THE INTERNATIONAL FOSSIL PLANT NAMES INDEX (IFPNI)

Dataset link: http://fossilplants.info/about

Region: global

Taxon: plants, algae

Type: checklist

Why is this important: Fossils are a large gap in GBIF and the IFPNI is a comprehensive authoritative resource with links to literature very well suited to augment our backbone. It is also ideal to flag names as fossils for later filtering and validating occurrences in GBIF

Priority: high

License: Unspecified

Comments: It is hosted in Moscow giving an opportunity for GBIF outreach

Dataholders contact information: nicar-sekretariat@yandex.ru

Users contact info: mdoering@gbif.org

mdoering commented 7 years ago

From: http://www.academia.edu/23525419/THE_INTERNATIONAL_FOSSIL_PLANT_NAMES_INDEX_IFPNI_First_Year_Report

The INTERNATIONAL FOSSIL PLANT NAMES INDEX (IFPNI) was first launched in May, 2014 as a data base of fossil names of plants, algae, fungi, allied prokaryotic forms (formerly treated as algae and Cyanophyceae in particular), algae-related protists and fossil microproblematica (so-called ambiregnal organisms) published in using binary nomenclature. The goal of the IFPNI was also to compile and maintain a comprehensive literature based record of these fossil scientific names and bank of author names in palaeobotany. In modern plant science there was no previously comprehensive united index of recorded fossil forms of algae, cyanobacteria and related prokaryotic microorganisms(interpreted in the past as algae), fungi and plants, which were all described since earlyXIX century up to our days.