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Service Description: <div style='text-align:Left;'><div><div><p><span>Database of palaeontological specimens held by the Survey, including the “Museum” and “Survey” collections currently held in Keyworth and Edinburgh. The database currently contains over 250,000 entries mainly from the taxonomic reference collections. Geographical coverage is predominantly UK and Ireland, although the Survey also holds several thousand fossils from the rest of the world. Geological ages from Precambrian to Upper Greensand Formation (Lower Cretaceous) and Quaternary samples are comprehensively databased, as well as recognised holotype and other type samples. Key fields recorded include sample number and description, collector or donor information, locality information, stratigraphy, type status, identification and citation details. The majority of these can be searched via a public web portal. The most recent update makes available ~25,000 digital images, many taken to a professional standard. The palaeontology collection at BGS is also historically significant, having its origins in the Museum of Practical Geology, Piccadilly, London, in 1851. http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480317</span></p></div></div></div>

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Description: Database of palaeontological specimens held by the Survey, including the “Museum” and “Survey” collections currently held in Keyworth and Edinburgh. The database currently contains over 250,000 entries mainly from the taxonomic reference collections. Geographical coverage is predominantly UK and Ireland, although the Survey also holds several thousand fossils from the rest of the world. Geological ages from Precambrian to Upper Greensand Formation (Lower Cretaceous) and Quaternary samples are comprehensively databased, as well as recognised holotype and other type samples. Key fields recorded include sample number and description, collector or donor information, locality information, stratigraphy, type status, identification and citation details. The majority of these can be searched via a public web portal. The most recent update makes available ~25,000 digital images, many taken to a professional standard. The palaeontology collection at BGS is also historically significant, having its origins in the Museum of Practical Geology, Piccadilly, London, in 1851. http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13480317

Copyright Text: The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

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