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Paleontologic Information and Data Available in ASCII Files for Downloading

Files listed in the table below are for the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region only.  Paleontologic Information and Data includes publicly releasable biostratigraphic and paleobathymetric summary information on active and expired fields and leases in the Gulf of Mexico.  The foraminiferal and coccolith biostratigraphic markers are placed in their proper chronologic, chronostratigraphic and chronozonal context as determined by the BOEMRE Resource Evaluation Paleontologic Group (see Biostratigraphic Chart of the Gulf of Mexico Offshore Region, Jurassic to Quaternary).

Please read our disclaimer prior to downloading files.  Download a copy of the file you want by clicking on Fixed Text Format under the Download column of the table below.  The Fixed Format provides a defined length for each field within the file (see layouts).  Once you have downloaded the data and have decompressed the file using PKZIP or WinZip, the data can then be imported into a variety of database or spreadsheet packages to facilitate queries or reports.

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For a complete record layout click on the File Name of interest.

NOTE:  These Internet files are scheduled for update on a monthly basis. If an update has not completed after 24 hours of the stated schedule, an email should be sent to GulfPublicInfo@boemre.gov providing the webpage address for further investigation.  

This data was last updated on 09-01-2011 and will be updated monthly.
File Name	Download	Description
Releasable Paleo Reports gepaldmp_Paleo.txt gepaldmp_Header.txt	Fixed	Two files that include all released paleontologic summary reports and header data from January 1947 to August 31, 2011.
New Paleo Reports gepaldmp_Paleo.txt gepaldmp_Header.txt	Fixed	Two files that include newly released paleontologic summary reports and header data since previous update (August 1 - 31, 2011)
List of New Paleo Reports gepaldmp_newlist.txt	Fixed	Indexed list of newly released paleontologic summary reports since previous update (August 1 - 31, 2011)