FRED: The Fossil Record Electronic Database
Database
This is the electronic database for the Nationally Significant New Zealand Fossil Record File.
FRED is a recording scheme for over 100,000 locality records in NZ and nearby regions including SE Pacific Islands and the Ross Sea region of Antarctica.
Nationally Significant Databases are those datasets and collections registered as important for New Zealand, and as such are supported by long-term government funding.
Overview
FRED is jointly managed by Geoscience Society of New Zealand and GNS. FRED is operated by GNS through the FRST National Paleontological Databases Programme, with the assistance of staff at Auckland, Victoria, Canterbury and Otago universities.
FRED primarily contains initial registration information about fossil localities (geographic coordinates; collecting details, including geological context; initial repository of specimens).
For some localities it also provides additional data deposited by government, university, industry, and amateur geoscientists (taxonomic determinations; paleontological interpretations of stratigraphic age and paleoenvironment; geological opinions about stratigraphic age).
FRED contains over 103,000 locality records registered at regional recording centres since 1946, and is updated regularly.
Some samples collected from FRF localities are stored in the National Paleontological Collection (NPC) at GNS Science. Researchers may access these samples either through an on-site visit or by requesting a loan.
Geographic coordinates can be queried and downloaded by anyone. Access to detailed information, and capability to contribute new site records or other data requires a username and password - registered users agree to abide by accepted Conditions of Use.
Cite as: GNS Science & Geoscience Society of New Zealand. (2003). New Zealand Fossil Record File [Data set]. GNS Science. https://doi.org/10.21420/JQQB-NK89
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Terms of Use
FRED :: The Fossil Record Electronic Database(external link)
Usage considerations and ethical statement for users of the Fossil Record File Electronic Database
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Locations
- Te Tai-o-Aorere / Tasman
- Rangitāhua / Kermadec Islands
- Rēkohu / Chatham Islands
- Rakiura / Stewart Island
- Murihiku / Southland
- Ōtepoti / Dunedin
- Ōtākou / Otago
- Ōtautahi / Christchurch
- Waitaha / Canterbury
- Kaikōura
- Te Tai Poutini / West Coast
- Te Tauihu-o-te-waka/ Marlborough
- Whakatū / Nelson
- Antarctica
- Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara / Wellington
- Manawatū-Whanganui
- Central Plateau
- Taranaki
- Te Matau-a-Māui / Hawke's Bay
- Te Tai Rāwhiti / Gisborne
- Te Moana-a-Toi / Bay of Plenty
- Waikato
- Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland
- Te Tai Tokerau / Northland
- Aotearoa / New Zealand
- Pacific Islands