Biodiversity Information Science and Standards : Conference Abstract
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Corresponding author: Ricardo Paredes (ricardo.paredes@uc.pt)
Received: 30 May 2019 | Published: 18 Jun 2019
© 2019 Ricardo Paredes
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Citation: Paredes R (2019) More Than Names: The role of updated taxonomy in palaeontology collections. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3: e36643. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.36643
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The accuracy on taxonomic determinations of palaeontology collections may have significant consequences in estimations of organism diversity through time. This justifies the need of taxonomic standardization of palaeontological collections. The perception of palaeodiversity through Phanerozoic time has significantly improved since the Sepkoski showed the marine invertebrate taxonomic data in diversity graphs, organized in orders (
Palaeontological museum collections are known to be one of the largest repositories of fossil data. Taxonomic standardization of palaeontology collections in the context of a museum should:
These practices are valuable complements to current methodologies adopted to improve the taxonomy of collections, resulting in more reliable data which further enables museum-based research focusing on palaeodiversity estimations.
palaeodiversity, taxonomy, online inventory, fossils, curatorship management
Ricardo Paredes
Biodiversity_Next 2019