Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America (NMITA): A World-Wide Web Taxonomy Database

小行星9705199 在这项研究中，Ann Budd及其同事将为巴拿马古生物学项目，多米尼加共和国项目以及牙买加，库拉考和委内瑞拉的相关项目所收集的化石开发一个热带美洲新近纪海洋生物群（NMITA）的凭证分类数据库。 在这些项目中，按照标准化程序对化石进行取样，旨在记录过去2000万年来热带美洲海洋生物多样性的变化。 国家海洋信息技术研究所将通过提供关于五个分类组（苔藓虫、珊瑚、软体动物、介形虫、底栖有孔虫）的图像和概况资料，为正在进行的藏品鉴定工作奠定分类学基础。 它将是重要的标准化命名和识别分类群是新的科学，它将提供一个起点，重建选定的分支系统。 超过2000个分类群和7000幅图像的数据将被输入到爱荷华州大学的企业关系数据库管理系统中，该系统使用的是ASC生物收集信息模型的模式。 这些数据包括：（1）分类学的作者、同义词、模式标本和诊断形态特征;（2）代表性标本的图像和相关的博物馆目录和测量数据;（3）分布信息。 正在为珊瑚和软体动物编制形态学术语、特征矩阵和计算机化识别工具的图解词汇表。 将利用地理信息系统软件和其他工具制作分布图和地层分布图。 将制定协议，以便与PaleoBank和巴拿马古生物学项目的地点和地层数据库交流信息。

9705199 Budd In this research, Ann Budd and colleagues will develop a vouchered taxonomic database of the Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America (NMITA) for fossil collections made by the Panama Paleontology Project, the Dominican Republic project, and associated projects in Jamaica, Curacao, and Venezuela. In these projects, fossils are sampled following standardized procedures designed to document changes in marine biodiversity in tropical America over the past 20 million years. NMITA will establish the taxonomic foundation for ongoing identification of the collections by providing images and synoptic information on five taxonomic groups (bryozoans, corals, molluscs, ostracodes, benthic foraminifera). It will be important for standardizing nomenclature and recognizing taxa that are new to science, and it will provide a starting point for reconstructing the phylogenies of selected clades. Data for more than 2000 taxa and 7000 images will be entered in an enterprise relational database management system at the University of Iowa using a model patterned after the ASC Information Model for Biological Collections. The data include: (1) taxonomic authorship, synonyms, type specimens, and diagnostic morphologic characters; (2) images of representative specimens and associated museum catalog and measurement data; (3) distributional information. Illustrated glossaries of morphologic terms, character matrices, and computerized identification tools are being developed for corals and molluscs. Distribution maps and stratigraphic range charts will be produced using GIS software and other tools. Protocols will be developed for exchange of information with PaleoBank and the locality and stratigraphy database of the Panama Paleontology Project.