Database of occurrences of marine plankton microfossil species.
NEPTUNE SANDBOX BERLIN
Neptune Sandbox Berlin (NSB) is the current implementation of the Neptune database (Lazarus, 1994; Spencer-Cervato, 1999). It holds hundreds of thousands of occurrence records for thousands of marine plankton microfossil species from hundreds of deep-sea ocean drilling sections; a taxonomic name management list; age models for all sections; and the geochronologic data used to create these age models. NSB serves several distinct groups of users including microfossil taxonomists, evolutionary (paleo)biologists, and paleoceanographers. A selection of papers that have used Neptune/NSB data is given below, and a full list of all papers using, describing or mentioning the database is given here.
NSB also provides data services to the Mikrotax community catalog of microfossils and to the Geobiodiversity Database (GBDB).
Access & costs: NSB is free to use. User accounts are employed to maintain database security and provide feedback on user needs, and can be obtained simply with an email to one of NSB's managers. The only obligation is to cite the database properly in any publications or public presentations.
Type: virtual infrastructure
Creation date: Neptune Sandbox Berlin derives from the Neptune database, which was released in 1993.
Website: www.nsb-mfn-berlin.de
Contacts:
- Dr Johan Renaudie, MfN Berlin - johan.renaudie@mfn-berlin.de
- Dr David Lazarus, MfN Berlin - david.lazarus@mfn-berlin.de