pforam advanced search

Acritax advanced search form

NOT ready yet - this page will allow searching using more complex sets of criteria than name alone. At present however there is no data in the system to search for so the page is simply copied from the planktic foram website to show the kind of thing which is possible.

Use this form to search for taxa from particular time intervals and/or with particular morphological characters. To find a taxon by name it is probably easier to use the Taxonomic Search page

Search Scope:	Search output
1. TAXONOMIC CRITERIA
rank:
Within taxon (can be abbreviated):
Citation includes:

2. AGE WINDOW TO SEARCH WITHIN
= Current age-window is:

3. CHARACTER MATRIX

test outline	coiling axis	chamber arrangement	umbilicus
edge view	umbilical or test sutures	spiral sutures	shell porosity
wall texture	aperture position	aperture border	accessory apertures
periphery	umb-side chamber shape	spiral-side chamber shape	periph margin shape
umbilical depth	final-whorl chambers

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NOTES ON USE OF THIS FORM

Within taxon - this limits search to a taxon and its sub-taxa - e.g. "Heterohelicidae" will limit search to heterohelicids. You can use part of name only e.g. "helicid".
Citation includes - search for any part of the formal citation of a taxon, e.g. author name or publication date.
Age window - limit search to a stratigraphic interval. Age terms can be absolute age in Ma (eg 65) a zone (e.g. P4, A. mayaroensis) a stage (e.g Albian) or a magnetochron (e.g. chron C1n). You can use a partial term e.g. "A. mayaro".
Base of window - if left blank this will be auto-filled
In all the text boxes you can use % and _ as wildcards within terms e.g. Hetero%idae 19_7
The text boxes in the character matrix (length, width, breadth, chambers) do not do anything, yet.
To explore the meaning of the character states it is best to select options from only one box.
It would be possible to give results in different formats if users would like this (i.e. to have extra options beyond citations and images). Suggestions welcome!
It may be necessary to limit the number of images generated if the routine makes heavy demands on the server.
I could work out how to do searches on both the Mesozoic and Cenozoic modules at the same time - but this would be a bit of a pain, so I won't do it unless requested/convinced there is a demand.
Image mode does not work with higher taxa yet (when icon images have been designated for the higher taxa I can enable it) - and of course you can browse the taxonomy from the main interface..