Nannotax Enabling nannofossil research

Nannotax is a site being developed to allow online collection of images of nannofossils and commenting on them. It is being developed using the content management system Drupal, as implemented within EDIT (European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy) as a Taxonomy Information System - Scratchpads. The strengths of this system are that diverse information can be uploaded and dynamically linked to individual taxa (i.e. it can grow organically) and that the commenting system allows users to readily share their own observations.

The system is being developed in the first place for Neogene nannofossils and a reasonably complete skeletal taxonomy for them has been uploaded, based on the Young (1998) chapter in Bown (1998).

The site is still at an early stage of development and so far detailed content has only been uploaded for the Zygodiscales (Helicosphaeraceae and Zygodiscaceae). Please do browse the site and request a user account - these need to be approved so there will probably be a delay before I read the email asking for my approval. When registered you will be free to add comments etc. 

Jeremy Young 

Reference 

Bown P.R. (ed 1998): Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy. British Micropalaeontological Society Series, Kluwer Academic. ISBN 0-412-78970-1, 328 p.