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A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul’s Quaternary vertebrates

The study of palaeo-chronologies using fossil data provides evidence for past ecological and evolutionary processes, and is therefore useful for predicting patterns and impacts of future environmental change. However, the robustness of inferences made from fossil ages relies heavily on both the quan...

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Autores principales: Rodríguez-Rey, Marta, Herrando-Pérez, Salvador, Brook, Barry W., Saltré, Frédérik, Alroy, John, Beeton, Nicholas, Bird, Michael I., Cooper, Alan, Gillespie, Richard, Jacobs, Zenobia, Johnson, Christopher N., Miller, Gifford H., Prideaux, Gavin J., Roberts, Richard G., Turney, Chris S.M., Bradshaw, Corey J.A.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4984482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27434208
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.53
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author Rodríguez-Rey, Marta
Herrando-Pérez, Salvador
Brook, Barry W.
Saltré, Frédérik
Alroy, John
Beeton, Nicholas
Bird, Michael I.
Cooper, Alan
Gillespie, Richard
Jacobs, Zenobia
Johnson, Christopher N.
Miller, Gifford H.
Prideaux, Gavin J.
Roberts, Richard G.
Turney, Chris S.M.
Bradshaw, Corey J.A.
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Herrando-Pérez, Salvador
Brook, Barry W.
Saltré, Frédérik
Alroy, John
Beeton, Nicholas
Bird, Michael I.
Cooper, Alan
Gillespie, Richard
Jacobs, Zenobia
Johnson, Christopher N.
Miller, Gifford H.
Prideaux, Gavin J.
Roberts, Richard G.
Turney, Chris S.M.
Bradshaw, Corey J.A.
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description The study of palaeo-chronologies using fossil data provides evidence for past ecological and evolutionary processes, and is therefore useful for predicting patterns and impacts of future environmental change. However, the robustness of inferences made from fossil ages relies heavily on both the quantity and quality of available data. We compiled Quaternary non-human vertebrate fossil ages from Sahul published up to 2013. This, the FosSahul database, includes 9,302 fossil records from 363 deposits, for a total of 478 species within 215 genera, of which 27 are from extinct and extant megafaunal species (2,559 records). We also provide a rating of reliability of individual absolute age based on the dating protocols and association between the dated materials and the fossil remains. Our proposed rating system identified 2,422 records with high-quality ages (i.e., a reduction of 74%). There are many applications of the database, including disentangling the confounding influences of hypothetical extinction drivers, better spatial distribution estimates of species relative to palaeo-climates, and potentially identifying new areas for fossil discovery.
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spelling pubmed-49844822016-08-26 A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul’s Quaternary vertebrates Rodríguez-Rey, Marta Herrando-Pérez, Salvador Brook, Barry W. Saltré, Frédérik Alroy, John Beeton, Nicholas Bird, Michael I. Cooper, Alan Gillespie, Richard Jacobs, Zenobia Johnson, Christopher N. Miller, Gifford H. Prideaux, Gavin J. Roberts, Richard G. Turney, Chris S.M. Bradshaw, Corey J.A. Sci Data Data Descriptor The study of palaeo-chronologies using fossil data provides evidence for past ecological and evolutionary processes, and is therefore useful for predicting patterns and impacts of future environmental change. However, the robustness of inferences made from fossil ages relies heavily on both the quantity and quality of available data. We compiled Quaternary non-human vertebrate fossil ages from Sahul published up to 2013. This, the FosSahul database, includes 9,302 fossil records from 363 deposits, for a total of 478 species within 215 genera, of which 27 are from extinct and extant megafaunal species (2,559 records). We also provide a rating of reliability of individual absolute age based on the dating protocols and association between the dated materials and the fossil remains. Our proposed rating system identified 2,422 records with high-quality ages (i.e., a reduction of 74%). There are many applications of the database, including disentangling the confounding influences of hypothetical extinction drivers, better spatial distribution estimates of species relative to palaeo-climates, and potentially identifying new areas for fossil discovery. Nature Publishing Group 2016-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4984482/ /pubmed/27434208 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.53 Text en Copyright © 2016, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Metadata associated with this Data Descriptor is available at http://www.nature.com/sdata/ and is released under the CC0 waiver to maximize reuse.
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Herrando-Pérez, Salvador
Brook, Barry W.
Saltré, Frédérik
Alroy, John
Beeton, Nicholas
Bird, Michael I.
Cooper, Alan
Gillespie, Richard
Jacobs, Zenobia
Johnson, Christopher N.
Miller, Gifford H.
Prideaux, Gavin J.
Roberts, Richard G.
Turney, Chris S.M.
Bradshaw, Corey J.A.
A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul’s Quaternary vertebrates
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title_fullStr A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul’s Quaternary vertebrates
title_full_unstemmed A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul’s Quaternary vertebrates
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4984482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27434208
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.53
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