Using Specify for vertebrate paleontology collections

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I would like to hear from other members who are implementing Specify for vertebrate paleontology collections. What issues did you have finding appropriate fields for Land Mammal Ages, for example?

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We use the Chronostrathigraphy tree which has specific fields for the periods (see screen capture).
If you like individual ages, then you can add a dedicated field to Collection object attributes

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Good to know. Did you have help from the Specify support team getting your data converted and uploaded? We are hoping to use Specify 7 on the cloud.

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We had some initial help on how to do it, but the actual data preparation for the import was done by ourselves. The migration was done via Excel and needed a lot of cleaning a honogeneization (agen names, countries and provinces etc)