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Taxonomic listing of Quaternary, Upper Tertiary and Carboniferous Fossils of UK (North)

Publisher
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Updated
28 August 2026
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

This dataset is an taxonomic listing (various phyla and families) of Quaternary, Upper Tertiary and Carboniferous fossils relevant to the palaeontology of Scotland and Northern England. Species authors and some dates are given. The MS Access database MTD_TAXALIST presently contains 1169 records. It has provision for environmental interpretation, and publications in which the fossils are illustrated.

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
28 August 2026
Harvest GUID
9df8df52-d76a-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98
Extent (Latitude)
60.8600° to 53.8800°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.6500° to -0.5300°
Dataset reference date (creation)
1992
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
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.
Responsible party
British Geological Survey (distributor, originator, pointOfContact, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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