Palaeoentomological data in SEAD – The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database

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Description

This dataset includes the Quaternary fossil record of arthropods (mainly insects and especially beetles) from the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD; www.sead.se). Data are from BugsCEP (www.bugscep.com), a constituent database of SEAD, and have been gathered from published studies in both scientific journals and consultancy reports. References to the source publications are available in the dataset. The database is global but includes data mostly from northwestern Europe. Sites are classified as either archaeological sites or stratigraphic sequences, with each site containing data from one or more sediment samples. Archaeological sites are locations on or near archaeological excavations. Stratigraphic sequences are mainly from peatbogs or lake sediments, but include mixed sediments which may have human impact. Sample dates are expressed as a range of years BP and derived through a wide variety of dating methods ranging in precision and accuracy from calendar dates and modern radiocarbon dating to stratigraphic association of undated samples with dated layers. Many dates are also interpolated between radiometric dates using age-depth models. Datings ranges from ca 500000 yrs BP until present.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 220,488 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

220488

164864

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is SEAD. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: f3e6a7ab-4c07-47e1-9267-4cbee0badcb0. SEAD publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Occurrence; Coleoptera; Insects; Quaternary fossils

Contacts

Philip Buckland

Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Umeå University

philip.buckland@umu.se

https://www.sead.se/

Rebecka Weegar

Point Of Contact

Umeå University

rebecka.weegar@umu.se

Geographic Coverage

Worldwide, most data are from northwest Europe

Bounding Coordinates	South West [-42.695, -161.9], North East [82.45, 138.694]

Taxonomic Coverage

N/A

Kingdom	Animalia

Bibliographic Citations

Buckland, P.I. & Buckland, P.C. 2006. BugsCEP Coleopteran Ecology Package. IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series # 2006-116. NOAA/NCDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA. URL: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data
Buckland, P.I., Sjölander, M., & Eriksson, E. J. 2018. Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD). In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2nd ed.). Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1

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