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FosSahul database 

Ver: 1.0
Status of Data: completed
Update Frequency: notPlanned
Security Classification: unclassified
Record Last Modified: 2025-12-02
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Accessed 249 times
Dataset Created: 2013-10-01
Dataset Published: 2016-03-16
Data can be accessed from the following links:
HTTPPoint-of-truth metadata URLHTTPFos_Sahul_SitesHTTPFos_Sahul_txtHTTPFos_Sahul_databaseHTTPro-crate-metadata.json
How to cite this collection:
Rodríguez Rey, M., Herrando-Perez, S., Brook, B., Saltre, F., Alroy, J., Beeton, N., Bird, M., Cooper, A., Gillespie, R., Jacobs, Z., Johnson, C., Prideaux, G., Roberts, R., Turney, C., Miller, G. & Bradshaw, C. (2016). FosSahul database. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://dx.doi.org/10.4227/05/56F077B3054E9 
FosSahul is the first database compiling the ages of nonhuman vertebrate fossils from the Middle Pleistocene to the present in the Sahul region. It includes comprehensive metadata with ratings of reliability allocated to each fossil age. Because ecological and evolutionary phenomena are time-dependent, the entire range of archaeological and palaeontological research disciplines benefit from the availability of this data. 
Credit
We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. 
Purpose
ARC Discovery Grant - DP130103842 : The record of extinctions over deep time is patchy and incomplete, yet we must use it to determine how major changes in past environments have shaped life on Earth today. The project develops cutting-edge mathematical tools to determine the patterns of extinctions and speciation over geological time to help predict our uncertain environmental future. 
Lineage
Data not provided. 
Method DocumentationData not provided.
Procedure Steps

1. 

Data were first collated from the primary literature (core papers). Then additional information was included by cross-referencing, and accessing, literature cited in the core papers. Finally we scrutinized the full set of literature sources in AustArch database http://dx.doi.org/10.5284/1027216 for fauna records associated with dated archaeological remains. Throughout, we contacted the authors responsible for publishing fossil ages when clarification was required. 

Sahul region (Australia and New Guinea)
Temporal Coverage
From 1955-01-01 to 2013-10-01 
Spatial Resolution

Data not provided.

Vertical Extent

Data not provided.

Data Quality Assessment Scope
Data not provided. 
Criteria for assessing the quality of Middle Pleistocene to Holocene vertebrate fossil ages
Data Quality Assessment Outcome
Data not provided. 
ANZSRC - FOR
Climatology
Other earth sciences
Palaeoecology
Vertebrate biology
Zoology
GCMD Sciences
CLIMATE INDICATORS - FAUNA
MODELS - SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS
Horizontal Resolution
> 1000 km or > 10 degrees
Parameters
field species name
latitude
longitude
region
relative age
stratigraphy
taphonomy
Temporal Resolution
one off
Topic
biota
User Defined
Biogeography
Birds
Climate And Climate Change (9603)
Ecological Modelling
Ecosystem modelling
Flora, Fauna And Biodiversity (9608)
Macroecology
Mammals
Reptiles
Author
Rodríguez Rey, Marta
Co-Author
Herrando-Perez, Salvador
Brook, Barry
Saltre, Frederik
Alroy, John
Beeton, Nick
Bird, Michael
Cooper, Alan
Gillespie, Richard
Jacobs, Zenobia
Johnson, Chris
Prideaux, Gavin
Roberts, Richard
Turney, Chris
Miller, Gifford H.
Bradshaw, Corey
Contact Point
Rodríguez Rey, Marta
Publisher
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
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