Fossilworks

Fossilworks
Available in	English
Created by	John Alroy
URL	www.fossilworks.org
Launched	1998; 28 years ago
Current status	Shut down around 2022

Fossilworks was a database for fossils (palaeontology). Its website which allows users to search and download information from its database. The content has been put together by paleontologists around the world.

As of September 2021 the database houses:

72,851 references
423,885 taxa
211,094 fossil collections
1,477,100 taxonomic occurrences

History

The website was created in 1998 by John Alroy and housed at Macquarie University, in New South Wales, Australia. It shut down at around 2022. It now leads to the Paleobiology Database.

References

↑ "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". fossilworks.org. 7 September 2021. Archived from the original on 31 July 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2021.

Other websites

Official website

[“Fossil”-1] "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". fossilworks.org. 7 September 2021. Archived from the original on 31 July 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2021.