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Dataset	Author	Type	Licence
Join the Dots collection-level descriptions The records in this dataset provide a high-level summary of the Natural History Museum's collection and encompass the material managed by its Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and... CSV PDF	Natural History Museum	Collections	Open Data Commons Attribution License
Listing of HMS Challenger Sediment Collection This is a dataset to accompany a paper submitted in April 2025 to Historical Biology: Miller, C. Giles and Jouet-Sarkany, Monique M. H. 2025. Sir John Murray’s H.M.S. Challenger... CSV	Giles Miller; Monique Jouet-Sarkany	Research	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection The Ocean Bottom Deposits Collection contains over 28,000 items derived from sea floor sediment collections. These include sediment residues in tubes/bottles/jars, hand... CSV	Giles Miller	Collections	License not specified
Ray Bate Collection of mainly Cretaceous ostracods from West Africa The dataset describes a named taxonomic reference collection of 311 slides of individual specimens as well as a listing of related assemblage slides covering 4 slide cabinets.... CSV	Giles Miller; Jamie Rolt	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Ordovician conodonts from Al Fleij, Oman This dataset includes a listing of all conodont specimens illustrated from the Amdeh Formation at Al Fleij, Oman and accompanies a paper submitted to PGA on the trilobites and... CSV	Giles Miller	Collections	Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)
A biological nano-foam: the wall of coniferous bisaccate pollen The outer layer of the pollen grain, the exine, plays a key role in the survival of terrestrial plant life. However, the exine structure in different groups of plants remains... CSV	Ruxandra Cojocaru; Oonagh Mannix; Stephen Stukins; Alexandra Pacureanu; Giles Miller; Marie Capron	Research	Creative Commons Attribution
Supplementary Material: Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminife... The size structure of plankton communities is an important determinant of their functions in marine ecosystems. However, few studies have quantified how organism size varies... CSV	Marina Costa Rillo; Giles Miller; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard	Collections	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
Eric Robinson Collection of Ostracoda and Foraminifera In 2006, Eric Robinson, formerly of University College London, donated his ostracod collection to the Natural History Museum. This collection contains slides of named taxa and... CSV	Giles Miller	Collections	License not specified
Supplementary Material: Surface Sediment Samples From Early Age of Seafloor E... Ocean-floor sediment samples collected up to 150 years ago represent an important historical archive to benchmark global changes in the seafloor environment, such as species'... CSV	Marina Costa Rillo; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard; Giles Miller	Research	Creative Commons Attribution

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