PaleoTax User

Corals / Triassic-Cenozoic / Worldwide

Hannes Löser
Estación Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Geología, UNAM, Hermosillo, Sonora, México 83000

• Systematic : Coelenterata: Scleractinia/Octocorallia
• Stratigraphic : Triassic-Cenozoic
  • Suborders, Families, Genera, Species : all
  • Citations:
    • Triassic : under progress
    • Jurassic : almost complete - 95% of the citations of Jurassic corals were obtained from a text file built up by Bernard Lathuilière (Nancy) for which I am very grateful
    • Cretaceous : complete and up to date
    • Cenozoic : complete up to 1929 (Fossilium Catalogus), from 1930 on much Paleogene is recorded
• Geographic : Worldwide

Reason

• Information system and creation of a systematic catalogue (only Cretaceous)
• Systematic revision of the Cretaceous corals on the genus level
• Estimation on palaeobiogeography, diversity, evolution ...
• Morphometric data, numeric taxonomy, PCA

Data

• 3,500 references (fossil corals) + 9,100 (extant corals)
• 1,720 genera (Triassic - extant)
• 10,570 species
  • Triassic : 380 (not complete)
  • Jurassic : 2900
  • Cretaceous : 3100
  • Cenozoic : 3000 (nearly complete)
  • Extant : 540 (not complete)
• 8,000 Mesozoic/Cenozoic localities - at 3,200 localities corals are indicated
• 23,000 samples (Mesozoic/Cenozoic)
• 21,400 associated images (mainly thin sections; 120 GB image data)
• 51,000 citations
  • Triassic : 810 (not complete, but in progress)
  • Jurassic : 12,550
  • Cretaceous : 22,900
  • Cenozoic : 9,589 (not complete, but in progress)
• 33,270 occurrences (mainly Cretaceous and Paleogene)

• Löser, H. 1996. Database applications in coral research. -- Paleontological Society Papers, 1: 207-247; Denver.
• Löser, H. 1996. Erfassung und Auswertung paläontologischer Daten mit Personalcomputern. -- Mitteilung der Abteilung für Geologie, Paläontologie und Bergbau am Landesmuseum "Joanneum", Graz, 54: 189-214; Graz.
• Löser, H. 2002. Biostratigraphic dating of Cretaceous coral communities using large datasets. -- Paläontologische Zeitschrift 76, 1: 75-81.
• Löser, H. 2004. PaleoTax - a database program for palaeontological data. -- Computer and Geosciences, 30, 5: 513-521.
• Catalogue of Cretaceous Corals

[10 August 2015]