Dataset

Paleobiology of Ostracoda in "Oued Merarzeka" (NE Tunisia) and the Mediterranean Sea (1972)

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Presence-absence data for Ostracoda species from different geologic times situated near Tunesia and the Mediterranean Sea. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Goddeeris, B. (1973). Systematische studie der Ostracoda (Crustacea) uit het mariene Plioceen van de "Oued Merarzeka" (N.O. Tunesië). MSc Thesis. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Faculteit Wetenschappen: Leuven. 177, 4 pl. pp. Distribution of Ostracod fauna from the Pliocene deposits at Merarzeka (Hammamed; Tunesia, sample of May 1972) and geographical and stratigraphic distribution of Ostracoda species.

Citation
Goddeeris B.; Laboratorium voor Paleontologie; Faculteit Wetenschappen. KUL: Belgium; (2016): Paleobiology of Ostracoda in "Oued Merarzeka" (NE Tunisia) and the Mediterranean Sea.
Published
September 17, 2025 at 09:09
First registration
March 11, 2020 at 02:13
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=paleobiology_ostracoda_oued_merarzeka_mediterranean_sea_1972
Archive
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=paleobiology_ostracoda_oued_merarzeka_mediterranean_sea_1972

Contacts

Data Management Team
VLIZ

2,639
total submitted occurrences
2,253
accepted occurrences
47
taxa
41
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,815
68.8%
decimalLatitude 110
4.2%
decimalLongitude 110
4.2%
eventDate 1,649
62.5%
maximumDepthInMeters 2,639
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 2,639
100.0%
scientificNameID 240 144
14.6%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 2,639
100.0%
ON_LAND 2,364
89.6%
NO_MATCH 288
10.9%
NO_COORD 110
4.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 48
1.8%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 48
1.8%

Measurement types

DNA derived data