Coral Trait Database (CoralTraitDB)
ETOPO1 Global Relief Model (ETOPO1)
GPlates Resources data set (GPlates)
Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature data set (HadISST1)
Macrostrat (macrostrat)
Marine Ecoregions of the World (meow)
Biodiversity Hotspots - Myers et al. (Myers-hotspots)
Natural Earth (NaturalEarth)
PaleoMAP Project (paleomap)
The PaleoReefs Database (pared)
Paleobiology Database (pbdb)
J.J. Sepkoski's compendium (sepkoski)
Supplementary Online Material to Scientific Publications Data sets (som)
Temperature 12k Database (Temp12k)
Paleobiology Database (pbdb)
The Paleobiology Database is a public database of paleontological data that anyone can use, maintained by an international non-governmental group of paleontologists.
Available variables
occs - Raw species occurrences
The dataset downloaded from here.
Access the raw species occurrences variable (“occs”) of the “pbdb” dataset with a fetch()
function:
spec <- fetch("pbdb", "occs")
Additional arguments
The argument dir
represents the path to temporary directory.
The argument verbose
(logical) determines should feedback be output to the console?
spec <- fetch(dat = "pbdb", var = "occs", dir, verbose=FALSE)
Resolution
species
Archive size
pbdb_occs_20191122_species: 79.6 MB
pbdb_occs_20200217_species: 80.8 MB
Versions
20191122
20200217
20200623
Licence
Reference
The Paleobiology Database www.paleobiodb.org
- Previous
- Next