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Palaeontological Specimen/Sample Collecting Forms

"Blue sheets" or more recently "sample collecting forms" are completed when palaeontological specimens or samples are collected during field work. They contain all the known geographical and...

Map based index (GeoIndex) fossil specimens

This layer of the GeoIndex shows the localities for which details of identified fossil specimens in the BGS Biostratigraphy Museum are databased. Only Ordovician and Silurian specimens listed...

3D palaeontological and petrological specimen scan data

The BGS 3D scans store holds digital 3-dimensional scans of BGS palaeontological and petrological specimens. The data include 3-dimensional meshes and 2-dimensional images exported by the scanning...

Index to registered borehole specimens (England, Wales, and Scotland)

Index of onshore boreholes in England, Wales, and Scotland for which BGS holds material either as registered specimens or cuttings. Developed to improve access by BGS staff and external enquirers...

Registered borehole specimens collection (England and Wales).

Collection of individually registered specimens and cuttings from onshore boreholes drilled in England and Wales by BGS, commercial and public bodies since the establishment of BGS in 1835. The...

Gorst Road petrographic archival rock specimen collection

Named after the former BGS sample store at Gorst Road, London, this archival collection of c.600 rocks is made up of a series of sub-collections donated by past senior members of the Geological...

List of specimens from the UK (North) Type and Stratigraphical collection and related publications

This dataset (GSE_REFERENCES) is a list of specimens held in the Type and Stratigraphical Collection of Scotland and Northern England, and the publications in which they are featured or...

Goose barnacle growth rates measured from specimens collected in Celtic Sea in April 2018

This data resulted from an opportunistic interception of biofouled marine litter floating off the coast of Cornwall. A colony of goose barnacles ( *Lepas anatifera*) and a neustonic isopod *Idotea...

CT scans of Crassigyrinus scoticus (BGS specimen GSE4722) (NERC Grant NE/P013090/1)

MicroCT (Micro–computed tomography) data of the left lower jaw of the Carboniferous stem tetrapod Crassigyrinus scoticus (GSE 4722), which was scanned in three parts (the specimen is preserved in...

UK museum specimen metadata and procrustes distance between left and right forewings, for five bumblebee species

Data comprise the collection label details of museums specimens for five bumblebee species (Bombus hortorum, B. muscorum, B. lapidarius, B. pascuorum and B. sylvarum) from five UK museums (Natural...

Index To Specimens Transferred From The John Smith Collection To The UK (North) Type and Stratigraphical Collection

This index is a list of specimens and slides taken from the John Smith Collection and placed in the Type and Stratigraphical (T&S) Collection of Scotland and Northern England. To some extent it...

All BGS Raw Biostratigraphy Collections And Data

A comprehensive collection of British fossil specimens and records compiled over 150 years of palaeontological collecting and research. Also includes all associated paper data, registers, indexes...

Index to the UK (North) type and stratigraphical collection of fossils

This dataset (GSE_SPECIMENS) is an index of the specimens and palaeontological slides held in the Type and Stratigraphical (T&S) Collection of Scotland and Northern England. This index along...

Registers of reference set of microfossils

Microfossils extracted from the original sample to be used as reference specimens. Some have been photographed. Original sample number, name of specimen, locality and geological horizon are given....

Habitat point records from 1997 MNCR/SNH St Kilda sublittoral survey

This was part of a joint MNCR and SNH survey of the St Kilda cSAC. This survey concentrated on areas that would not be sampled using the ROV, such as within caves and close in shore on the vertical...

Species point records from 1997 MNCR/SNH St Kilda sublittoral survey

This was part of a joint MNCR and SNH survey of the St Kilda cSAC. This survey concentrated on areas that would not be sampled using the ROV, such as within caves and close in shore on the vertical...

London office registers of palaeontological thin sections

Three registers of thin sections of predominantly Palaeozoic macrofossils together with algae, plants and a very few radiolarians and spores. The locality and geological horizon is also given It...

The Kew Herbarium Collection - HerbCat

Catalogue of 600,000 specimens held in Kew's herbarium

Obselete Record

The DAERA Northern Ireland Hot Spot Imposex Survey is tri-annual (once every three years) assessment of the bioeffects of Tri-Butyl-Tin (TBT) on Nucella lapillus. Data is collected for the purposes...

DAERA Imposex in Nucella lapillus Survey

The DAERA Northern Ireland National Imposex Survey is a tri-annual (once every three years) assessment of the bioeffects of Tri-Butyl-Tin (TBT) on Nucella lapillus. Data is collected for the...