NUMKey: An identification database program for B-forms of Nummulites species (foraminifera; Paleogene) for Windows and Android operating systems

DEVECİLER, ALİ; AKISKA, SİNAN

doi:10.5505/pajes.2018.42103

NUMKey: An identification database program for B-forms of Nummulites species (foraminifera; Paleogene) for Windows and Android operating systems

PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES-PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITESI MUHENDISLIK BILIMLERI DERGISI, cilt.24, sa.6, ss.1179-1187, 2018 (ESCI)

Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
Cilt numarası: 24 Sayı: 6
Basım Tarihi: 2018
Doi Numarası: 10.5505/pajes.2018.42103
Dergi Adı: PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES-PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITESI MUHENDISLIK BILIMLERI DERGISI
Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1179-1187
Anahtar Kelimeler: Foraminifera, Nummulites, Database, Paleogene, identification key
Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Nummulites is an index taxon for the Paleogene period. Because of the numerous species of this genus, it takes some time to identify and describe the species. Thus, NUMKey has been developed as a tool to provide convenience for paleontologist in definition of Nummulites species. This program has been written for a Windows operating systems with Visual Basic and an Android mobile systems with Java (Eclipse) to determine microspheric specimens of 138 Nummulites species. Important physical characteristics for identifying the species-such as granulation, shape of test, septal filaments, shape of septa at adult stage, H-L ratio of a chamber and central knob-have been entered into the database. Since the program includes an open-source code, this aspect permits the modifications both on the source code and the database.