| Alphabetical List of Entities |
All Entities in the model are listed below in alphabetical order with brief descriptions. Color codes follow the e-r diagram. Descriptions should not be considered definitive definitions of scope of entity.
| Entity | Portion of model | Brief Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1D_LOCATION | Provenance | A linear distance |
| 3D_LOCATION | Provenance | Location on the surface of the Earth recorded as Latitude, Longitude, and altitude in meters using a specified datum |
| AUTHOR | Vouchers | An author of a publication |
| AUTHORITY | Provenance | Source for information indicating that a collectingevent came from a particular stratigraphic context |
| AUTHOR_PUB_TAX_ASSOCIATION | Vouchers | Associative entity relating authors,publications,and taxon names. Used to record authorship of taxon names |
| BIOLOGICAL | Interpretations | Information concerning the biology of a species |
| BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC_ZONE | Provenance | An interval of geologic time |
| BOOK | Vouchers | Bibliographic reference to a book |
| BOOK_PUB_ASSOCIATION | Vouchers | Associative entity relating books to publishers |
| CAST | Vouchers | A physical copy of a CollectionsObject |
| CHARACTER | Interpretations | Characters and Character states describing the morphology of a species |
| COLLECTIONS_OBJECT | Vouchers | A physical object such as a fossil held in a paleontological museum collection |
| COMPLEX_SPATIAL_OBJECT | Provenance | A spatial object that is not defined by a simple geometry |
| EARTH_POSITION_COMPOSITE | Provenance | A region in three dimensional space defined by a set of bounding locations |
| EARTH_SURFACE_FEATURE | Provenance | A geographic location on or near the surface of the Earth |
| ELECTRONIC_PUBLICATION | Vouchers | A publicationin some non-traditional electronic form |
| ELEC_PUB_ASSOCIATION | Vouchers | Associative entity relating electronic publications to publishers |
| FOSSIL_ON_SLAB | Vouchers | A fossil located on a particular part of a slab of rock |
| FOSSIL_ON_GRIDDED_SLIDE | Vouchers | A fossil located in a particular grid square of a microscope slide |
| FOSSIL_ON_SLIDE_(XY) | Vouchers | An individual fossil located on a microscope slide through X Y coordinates |
| GEOCHRONOLOGIC_EPOCH | Provenance | An interval of time of rank Epoch |
| GEOCHRONOLOGIC_AGE | Provenance | An interval of time of rank Age |
| GEOCHRONOLOGIC_ERA | Provenance | An interval of time of rank Era |
| GEOCHRONOLOGIC_PERIOD | Provenance | An interval of time of rank Period |
| GEOGRAPHIC_FEATURE | Provenance | A named Earth surface feature such as a hill or river |
| GEOLOGIC_PROVINCE | Provenance | A large region with a bedrock geology that shares a common large-scale tectonic history |
| GEOPOLITICAL_FEATURE | Provenance | A region on the surface of the Earth delimited by political boundaries such as a county, state, or town |
| GEOPOLITICAL_ASSOCIATION | Provenance | Associative entity relating two Geopolitical Features in a parent-child relationship (this includes both nesting relationships, such as towns within counties, and temporal relationships such as name changes) |
| GEOCHRONOLOGIC_ZONE | Provenance | An interval of time corresponding to a biostratigraphic Zone |
| HIGHER_TAXON | Taxonomy | Taxonomic group of rank Genus or higher |
| HIGHER_TAXON | Taxonomy | A taxon of generic or greater rank |
| IDENTIFICATION | Vouchers | The assignment of a species name to a collections object |
| INVALID_PUBLISHED | Taxonomy | A Species name that is Avialible, but considered Invalid |
| INTERPRETIVE_INFORMATION | Interpretations | Information related to a species name |
| INT_COM_PUB_ASSOCIATION | Interpretations | Associative Entity Relating Proposed Combiniations with Interpretive Information and Publications |
| INTERPRETATION | Interpretations | Paleoenvrironmental interpretations related to lithostratigraphic units |
| JOURNAL_ARTICLE | Vouchers | Bibliographic reference to an individual article in a serial publication |
| JOURNAL_OR_SERIES | Vouchers | The name of a serial publication |
| KEYWORD | Vouchers | A word or phrase in a controlled vocabulary that is used to identify the subject matter of a publication |
| LANGUAGE | Vouchers | The language in which a publication is written |
| LEGAL_SURVEY_2D_LOCATION | Provenance | A location on the surface of the Earth specified by Latitude and Longitude |
| LITHOLOGY | Interpretations | Data concerning the lithologies found in lithostratigraphic units |
| LITERATURE_VOUCHER | Occurance | Occurance records based upon literature citations |
| LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC_SUPERGROUP | Provenance | A formally named body of rock of rank supergroup |
| LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC_BED | Provenance | A horizon or informally named body of rock of rank bed |
| LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC_MEMBER | Provenance | A formally named body of rock of rank member |
| LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC_FORMATION | Provenance | A formally named body of rock of rank formation |
| LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC_UNIT | Provenance | A formally named body of rock |
| LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC_GROUP | Provenance | A formally named body of rock of rank group |
| LOT | Vouchers | A collections object that has been taken to at least stage 3 (sorted) of the collections continuum |
| LOCATION | Provenance | A linear distance or a point on the surface of the Earth |
| MONOGRAPH | Vouchers | Bibliographic reference to amonograph |
| MON_PUB_ASSOCIATION | Vouchers | Associative entity relating monographs to publishers |
| NOMENCLATORIAL_ACT | Taxonomy | Any use of a species name that could form an entry in a synonomy |
| OBJECT_VOUCHER | Occurance | Occurance records based upon collections objects |
| OCCURANCE | Occurance | A report of a species having been found in some provenance |
| ORIGINAL_FORM_OF_SPECIES_NAME | Taxonomy | The original form and spelling of a species name |
| OTHER_PUBLICATION | Vouchers | Bibliographic reference to an unpublished work or a form of publication other than a Book, Journal Article, orMonograph |
| OTH_PUB_ASSOCIATION | Vouchers | Associative entity relating Other Publications to Publishers |
| OTHER_DATA_SET | Vouchers | An electronic data set other than an image or bitmap |
| OUTCROP | Provenance | An exposure of rock at the surface of the earth where one or more collecting events have taken place |
| PALEOENVIRONMENTAL_INFORMATION | Interpretations | Information concerning the paleoenvironmental setting of a lithostratigraphic unit |
| PART_OF_ASSOCIATION | Vouchers | A collections object that is part of an associated set of fossils |
| PART_OF_PUBLICATION | Vouchers | A publication that is part of another publication |
| POINT | Provenance | A point on the surface of the Earth |
| PROPOSED_COMBINATION | Taxonomy | Species rank name |
| PUB_PALE_LITH_ASSOCIATION | Interpretations | Associative Entity Relating Lithostratigraphic Units with Paleoenvrironmental Information and Publications |
| PUBLICATION | Vouchers | A bibliographic reference to a published or unpublished work |
| PUBLICATION-KEYWORD_ASSOCIATION | Vouchers | An associative entity relating Publications to Keywords |
| PUBLISHER_OR_UNIVERSITY | Vouchers | The publisher of a book, monograph or Other Publication |
| REGION | Provenance | A simple geometric region on the surface of the earth defined by a center and one or two linear distances such as a circle, square, or ellipse |
| SEA_LEVEL_CYCLE | Provenance | An interval of time identified within a sequence stratigraphic scheme |
| SIMPLE_SPATIAL_OBJECT | Provenance | A simple geometric spatial object |
| SLAB | Vouchers | A lithified rock bearing fossils |
| SLIDE | Vouchers | A microscope slide bearing one or more fossils |
| SPATIAL_OBJECT | Provenance | A point or region in space |
| SPECIMEN_COMPONENT | Vouchers | A Collections object that is part of a fossil collected or present in more complete form |
| STORAGE_LOCATION | Vouchers | The place in amuseum where a collections object should be found |
| STRATIGRAPHIC_CONTEXT | Provenance | The temporal and/or lithostratigraphic context of a collecting event |
| SUBSET_OF_LARGER_OBJECT | Vouchers | A collections object that is part of a larger collections object such as a particular fossil on a slab |
| SUBSTRATE_TYPE | Provenance | A description of the lithology of a stratigraphic occurance |
| TEMPORAL_OBJECT | Provenance | A point or interval of geologic time |
| TEMPORAL_PERIOD | Provenance | A formal interval of geologic time |
| TEMPORAL_EVENT | Provenance | A point in geologic time |
| TRAY | Vouchers | A collections object consisting of a set of specimens in a specimen tray, box, or similar container |
| TYPE_TAXON | Taxonomy | A taxon that has been designated as the type of a higher taxon. |
| UNAVAILIBLE | Taxonomy | A Species name that is unavailible under the rules of the ICZN |
| VALID | Taxonomy | A species name that is considered valid |
| WELL | Provenance | A hole drilled into the surface of the Earth |
18 Apr 1998