It is designed for use in education and research in systematics and evolutionary paleontology.
Partial information is currently available for hermatypic corals, gastropods, and ostracodes.
Users may click on taxa to receive conventional taxonomic information on authorship, synonyms, morphology, type specimens, and spatial and temporal distribution. Alternatively they may click on maps and stratigraphic columns to receive faunal lists for specific horizons. From these lists, the user may click on species to return to conventional taxonomic information. A simple image-based search routine is also provided to assist in identifying hermatypic coral genera. Other search routines are under development.