Dataset

RBINS Brachiopoda collection

EurOBIS MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The RBINS does not have many extant brachiopods, although the collection continues to grow through focused purchases and recent donations.

Published: March 12, 2025 at 14:56

URL: https://ipt.naturalsciences.be/resource?r=be_rbins_invertebrates_brachiopoda

Yves Samyn
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences - Department of Scientific Heritage Service

Biodiversity and Ecological Data and Information Centre - Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Biodiversity and Ecological Data and Information Centre - Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences

Stijn Cooleman
Belgian Biodiversity Platform

Franck Theeten
Royal Museum for Central Africa

2,503
occurrence records
9,241
measurements and facts
61
taxa
53
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,261
90.3%
decimalLatitude 2,257
90.2%
decimalLongitude 2,257
90.2%
eventDate 911
36.4%
maximumDepthInMeters 2,503
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 2,503
100.0%
scientificNameID 1,902 16
76.6%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 2,503
100.0%
NO_COORD 2,257
90.2%
NO_MATCH 347
13.9%
ON_LAND 86
3.4%

Measurement types

DNA derived data