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GSC Guide to Authors Fossil Reports
Fossil Reports are numbered, unpublished reports by GSC paleontologists and
outside consultants that identify and/or discuss fossils submitted by collectors.
The Fossil Report numbering system includes author initials, year, and commonly
abbreviations for geological ages (e.g. Fossil Report No. J2-1991-TTP, or Fossil
Report No. 002-GSN-1991). To assist in the cataloguing of the reports, their
titles should be as detailed as possible, including number of fossil collections,
geological age, geographic provenance (e.g. geographic name, province, or territory),
complete NTS number, year of collection or (re)submission, and name and institutional
affinity of the person requesting the report. Where practical, fossil group
and stratigraphic unit are useful additions to the title:
Report on 6 Silurian conodont samples from the Allen Bay Formation, Ellesmere
Island, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories, collected by T. de Freitas
(University of Ottawa) in 1989 (NTS 49 D/10, 49 D/16, 49 F/8).
Immediately following the title of the Fossil Report is the preamble, or qualifying
statement, which may vary, depending on the GSC division. For example, the GSC
Vancouver uses the following disclaimer:
All references to paleontological data and age determinations must quote
the authorship of the report, and the unique GSC locality number of the fossil
collection.
Reference to, or reproduction of, paleontological data and age determinations
in publications must be approved by the author of the Fossil Report prior to
manuscript submission. Substantial use of paleontological and age data in publications
should be reflected in the authorship.
In order that curators of GSC collections may update the records to show that
a Fossil Report was generated for the localities cited, it is useful (especially
in lengthy reports) to list on the first page the GSC locality numbers (e.g.
'Material: GSC loc. C-105021 to C-105055').
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