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Paper No. 237-27
Presentation Time: 8:00 AM-5:30 PM

THE BFORAMS@MIKROTAX, A NEWLY PUBLISHED ONLINE DATABASE FOR TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATIONS


BURKETT, Ashley, Boone Pickens School of Geology, Oklahoma State University, 105 NRC, Stillwater, OK 74078, HUBER, Brian, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, YOUNG, Jeremy, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom, BORRELLI, Chiara, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 227 Hutchison Hall, Rochester, NY 14627, FORD, Trenity, Oklahoma State UniversityGeology, 105 Noble Research Center, Oklahoma St, Stillwater, OK 74078-0001, FUNG, Megan, California Lutheran University, 60 W Olsen Rd #3700, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360-2787, KATZ, Miriam E., Geosciences Department, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, LECKIE, R. Mark, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 627 North Pleasant Street, 233 Morrill Science Center, Amherst, MA 01003, DE MELLO, Renata, PETROBRAS, 28 Henrique Valadares Ave, Rio de Janeiro, 20231030, Brazil and THOMAS, Ellen, Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History, Wesleyan University, Exley Science Center, 265 Church Street, Middletown, CT 06459

The bforams working group is building a universally accessible, high-quality online taxonomic database of Cretaceous through Cenozoic deep-sea benthic foraminifera. This database aims to provide an invaluable taxonomic reference for species identification, where images and expert opinions can be shared. The bforams database has been added to an already successful database of calcareous nannofossils (nannotax) and planktonic foraminifera (pforams@mikrotax). The Main Database will provide monographic coverage of ca 1,000 key species, including synonymies and modern images. In addition, all information from the original species descriptions including images of the type specimens are archived in the Original Description Catalog (indicated by the background color of the page). We are convinced that this database will provide an invaluable reference tool, will contribute greatly to training new foraminiferal researchers, assist specimen identification for stable isotope and trace element analyses, and facilitate discussions among experts.

Session No. 237--Booth# 167

T44. Insights from Microfossils and Their Modern Analogs: From Traditional and Emerging Approaches, to Critical Re-Evaluations (Posters)
Wednesday, 18 October 2023: 8:00 AM-5:30 PM
Hall B (David L Lawrence Convention Center)
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 55, No. 6
doi: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-392755
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