From source: This is the electronic database for the Nationally Significant New Zealand Fossil Record File.

FRED is a recording scheme for over 100,000 locality records in NZ and nearby regions including SE Pacific Islands and the Ross Sea region of Antarctica . . .FRED is jointly managed by Geoscience Society of New Zealand and GNS. FRED is operated by GNS through the FRST National Paleontological Databases Programme, with the assistance of staff at Auckland, Victoria, Canterbury and Otago universities.

FRED primarily contains initial registration information about fossil localities (geographic coordinates; collecting details, including geological context; initial repository of specimens).

For some localities it also provides additional data deposited by government, university, industry, and amateur geoscientists (taxonomic determinations; paleontological interpretations of stratigraphic age and paleoenvironment; geological opinions about stratigraphic age)."