National Paleontological Collection (NPC)
The National Paleontological Collection (NPC) is one of the “Nationally Significant” collections and databases recognised by the New Zealand government. In addition to systematic reference collections of macro- and micro-fossil taxa from New Zealand and surrounding areas, including Antarctica and New Caledonia, the NPC includes a large number of type and figured specimens, as well as some important historical collections and a small amount of foreign reference material.
Notably, the NPC also hosts the only International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Micropaleontological Reference Centre located in the Southern Hemisphere.
The collection is housed at the GNS Science Avalon campus. Catalogue information is digital and available online. Information pertaining to the type material is accessible to the public from the GNS Science web site.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.21420/0X8Y-H306
Cite as:
GNS Science. (2008). National Paleontological Collection (NPC) [Data set]. GNS Science. https://doi.org/10.21420/0X8Y-H306
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- Date (Creation)
- 2008-05-01
- Purpose
- Nationally significant data
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
- Keywords
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- fossil
- collections
- paleontology
- curation
- sample
- holotype
- Classification
- Restricted
- Use constraints
- Restricted
- Other constraints
- Majority of data is restricted to internal GNS curation use. Data on Type material is open file.
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
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- OnLine resource
- National Paleontological Collection (NPC) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
- Data quality is controlled by requiring most populated fields relevant to collection cataloguing to meet specific criteria before new data are entered or existing data updated. Other data fields are free-text and only add supplementary information. Completeness is ensured by making key fields mandatory and using auto-filling functions, such as registration numbering and taxonomic nomenclature. The NPC live-links to the online platform of the FRF (FRED) for the FRF registration number and locality description fields for records that are of NZ fossil provenance. Consistency is addressed using controlled lists and vocabularies (where possible). For example, taxonomic names must adhere to approved nomenclature, which is vetted in a thesaurus shared with the FRF. Data entry is guided by formally established collection cataloguing protocols, as per GNS Policies & Procedures document 5.17 National Paleontological Collection, as well as international best practice standards on collection management. Due to limited resource availability, data checking can only be undertaken intermittently. The NPC contains both peer-reviewed data and data that has not been reviewed. There are four main data sources: (1) published peer-reviewed articles, (2) unpublished student theses, (3) published peer-reviewed GNS Science reports and monographs, and (4) unpublished data acquired by GNS Science for research purposes.
- File identifier
- d1e10fff-0df2-4a50-bc76-3f57791c7317 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2022-09-15T13:50:15
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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