PaleoTax   Information System for Palaeontologists 

URL: 

   www.paleotax.de 

Source of information: 

website & feedback to questionnaire 

Last updated:   

July 2003 

Originally, PaleoTax is a tool for biodiversity research rather than collection 

management software. A module for collection specific tasks is about to be released. 

Contact 

Name:  

Hannes Loeser 

information 

Address: 

Estacion Regional del Noroeste, 

  Instituto 

de 

Geologia, 

UNAM 

  Apartado 

Postal 

1039, 

  Hermosillo, 

Sonora, 

  Mexico 

83000 

Email:  

info@paleotax.de 

Availability and 

Free download from http://www.paleotax.de/ 

cost 

Specialization by 

Any group of fossil and recent organisms, preferred animals 

taxonomic group 

(because in accordeance with the IRZN) 

Computing 

Microsoft Windows 

platform 

Limitations to 

No limitations documented, Hierarchical Relational Data Bank 

scalability 

System 

HDB

Data import 

Access, text files, dbf, other formats have to be converted to dbf in 

capabilities and/or 

advance; presently limited to literature, but generally not difficult to 

limitations 

extend options 

Data export 

ASCII, RTF, HTML 

capabilities and/or 

limitations 

Size and 

Germany; ca.10 installations 

distribution of user  worldwide (at least Germany, France, Russia, Japan, Mexico, USA) 

base 

number of installations unknown, ca. 30 downloads per month 

Source of user 

German: Loser, H. (2001) PaleoTax   Datenbanksystem zur 

documentation 

Erfassung, Verarbeitung und Ausgabe taxonomischer, 

geographischer und stratigraphischer Daten in der Palaontologie. 

Version 2.0. Handbuch und Referenz.    136 Seiten; Dresden 

(CPress). 

English: Loser, H. 2003. PaleoTax. Database management system 

to record, process, analyse and output taxonomic, geographic and 

stratigraphic data in palaeontology.   Publicaciones Ocasionales, 3: 

148 pp.; Hermosillo (UNAM). 

Database model 

http://www.paleotax.de/pvn17.htm 

documentation 

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