Nannotax Enabling nannofossil research

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Changes

April 2010. The site has been converted to new version of Drupal (the underlying software) and we are reconfiguring aspects of the site in preparation for major expansion of the content. User list

Welcome to Nannotax

Objective: To provide a user-editable site covering nannofossil taxonomy and biostratigraphy

What's on at the moment: Reasonably detailed coverage of Neogene nannofossil taxonomy, including images of most taxa, a searchable bibliography of Neogene nannofossil literature, short descriptions of species and higher taxa. In the longer term I intend, with colleagues, to extend the site coverage to older nannofossils and modern coccolithophores, but the Neogene was a convenient place to start. We are currently working on extending content to the Paleogene. Also we are adding scanned pages from the Farinacci catalog. 

What you can do:

• Use the menus, galleries, bibliography and search box (top left & top right) to explore the current content
• Use the forum to discuss this site or related topics
• Create a user/contributor account and help develop the site
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Can't find a species you think should be in the system?

• Do a search on the species name - the Neogene taxonomy is my subjective view of a useful taxonomy and many species are included as variants or synonyms of other species (e.g. Ceratolithus rugosus is listed as a synonym of C. cristatus). The Paleogene taxonomy is from Paul Bown.  
• If you do find the taxon listed as a synonym/variant add a comment to that page explaining why you think it is useful to discriminate it, and how you discriminate it.
• If you can't find the species add a comment to the relevant genus page.

Jeremy Young, Palaeontology Dept., The Natural History Museum, London

Nannotax is supported by

International Nannoplankton Association	European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy	The Gulf Coast Section of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists	The Micropalaeontological Scoiety