The NOW Database of Fossil Mammals

Indrė Žliobaitė; Mikael Fortelius; Raymond L. Bernor; Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende; Christine M. Janis; Kari Lintulaakso; Laura K. Säilä; Lars Werdelin; Isaac Casanovas-Vilar; Darin A. Croft; Lawrence J. Flynn; Samantha S. B. Hopkins; Anu Kaakinen; László Kordos; Dimitris S. Kostopoulos; Luca Pandolfi; John Rowan; Alexey Tesakov; Innessa Vislobokova; Zhaoqun Zhang; Manuela Aiglstorfer; David M. Alba; Michelle Arnal; Pierre-Olivier Antoine; Miriam Belmaker; Melike Bilgin; Jean-Renaud Boisserie; Matthew R. Borths; Siobhán B. Cooke; Jan A. van Dam; Eric Delson; Jussi T. Eronen; David Fox; Anthony R. Friscia; Marc Furió; Ioannis X. Giaourtsakis; Luke Holbrook; John Hunter; Sergi López-Torres; Joshua Ludtke; Raef Minwer-Barakat; Jan van der Made; Bastien Mennecart; Diana Pushkina; Lorenzo Rook; Juha Saarinen; Joshua X. Samuels; William Sanders; Mary T. Silcox; Jouni Vepsäläinen

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_3

The NOW Database of Fossil Mammals

Indrė Žliobaitė, Mikael Fortelius, Raymond L. Bernor, Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende, Christine M. Janis, Kari Lintulaakso, Laura K. Säilä, Lars Werdelin, Isaac Casanovas-Vilar, Darin A. Croft, Lawrence J. Flynn, Samantha S. B. Hopkins, Anu Kaakinen, László Kordos, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Luca Pandolfi, John Rowan, Alexey Tesakov, Innessa Vislobokova, Zhaoqun ZhangManuela Aiglstorfer, David M. Alba, Michelle Arnal, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Miriam Belmaker, Melike Bilgin, Jean-Renaud Boisserie, Matthew R. Borths, Siobhán B. Cooke, Jan A. van Dam, Eric Delson, Jussi T. Eronen, David Fox, Anthony R. Friscia, Marc Furió, Ioannis X. Giaourtsakis, Luke Holbrook, John Hunter, Sergi López-Torres, Joshua Ludtke, Raef Minwer-Barakat, Jan van der Made, Bastien Mennecart, Diana Pushkina, Lorenzo Rook, Juha Saarinen, Joshua X. Samuels, William Sanders, Mary T. Silcox, Jouni Vepsäläinen

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Abstract

NOW (New and Old Worlds) is a global database of fossil mammal occurrences, currently containing around 68,000 locality-species entries. The database spans the last 66 million years, with its primary focus on the last 23 million years. Whereas the database contains recordsNOW Databaserecords from all continents, the main focus and coverage of the database historically has been on Eurasia. The database includes primarily, but not exclusively, terrestrial mammals. It covers a large part of the currently known mammalian fossil record, focusing on classical and actively researched fossil localities. The database is managed in collaboration with an international advisory board of experts. Rather than a static archive, it emphasizes the continuous integration of new knowledge of the communityNOW Databasedatacuration in, data curationDatacuration, and consistencyNOW Databaseconsistency of scientific interpretations. The database records species occurrences at localities worldwide, as well as ecologicalEcological characteristics of fossil species, geological contextsGeologic/geologicalcontext of localities and more. The NOW database is primarily used for two purposes: (1) queries about occurrences of particular taxa, their characteristics and properties of localities in the spirit of an encyclopedia; and (2) large scale research and quantitative analyses of evolutionary processes, patterns, reconstructing past environments, as well as interpreting evolutionary contexts. The data are fully open, no logging in or community membership is necessary for using the data for any purpose.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems : 25 Years of the NOW Database of Fossil Mammals
Editors	Isaac Casanovas-Vilar, Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende, Christine M. Janis, Juha Saarinen
Number of pages	10
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2023
Pages	33-42
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-17490-2, 978-3-031-17493-3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-17491-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_3
Publication status	Published - 2023
MoE publication type	A3 Book chapter

Publication series

Name	Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
Publisher	Springer
Volume	Part F1250
ISSN (Print)	1877-9077
ISSN (Electronic)	1877-9085

Fields of Science

1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology

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Žliobaitė, I., Fortelius, M., Bernor, R. L., van den Hoek Ostende, L. W., Janis, C. M., Lintulaakso, K., Säilä, L. K., Werdelin, L., Casanovas-Vilar, I., Croft, D. A., Flynn, L. J., Hopkins, S. S. B., Kaakinen, A., Kordos, L., Kostopoulos, D. S., Pandolfi, L., Rowan, J., Tesakov, A., Vislobokova, I., ... Vepsäläinen, J. (2023). The NOW Database of Fossil Mammals. In I. Casanovas-Vilar, L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, C. M. Janis, & J. Saarinen (Eds.), Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems: 25 Years of the NOW Database of Fossil Mammals (pp. 33-42). (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology; Vol. Part F1250). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_3

Žliobaitė, Indrė ; Fortelius, Mikael ; Bernor, Raymond L. et al. / The NOW Database of Fossil Mammals. Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems: 25 Years of the NOW Database of Fossil Mammals. editor / Isaac Casanovas-Vilar ; Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende ; Christine M. Janis ; Juha Saarinen. Cham : Springer, 2023. pp. 33-42 (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology).

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Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems: 25 Years of the NOW Database of Fossil Mammals. ed. / Isaac Casanovas-Vilar; Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende; Christine M. Janis; Juha Saarinen. Cham: Springer, 2023. p. 33-42 (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology; Vol. Part F1250).

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Žliobaitė I , Fortelius M, Bernor RL, van den Hoek Ostende LW, Janis CM, Lintulaakso K et al. The NOW Database of Fossil Mammals. In Casanovas-Vilar I, van den Hoek Ostende LW, Janis CM, Saarinen J, editors, Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems: 25 Years of the NOW Database of Fossil Mammals. Cham: Springer. 2023. p. 33-42. (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-17491-9_3