J.J. Sepkoski's compendium (sepkoski)
The purpose of this database is to allow users to easily search and summarize Sepkoski’s global genus compendium on the basis of Evolutionary Fauna, Phylum, or Class. You can recover customized lists of genera and their stratigraphic ranges (according to Sepkoski) as well as summaries of genus richness and taxonomic rates of evolution.
Available variables
genera - Startigraphic ranges of marine genera.
The dataset downloaded from here.
Access the stratigraphic ranges of marine genera variable (“genera”) of the “sepkoski” dataset with a fetch() function:
margen <- fetch("sepkoski", "genera")
Additional arguments
The argument dir represents the path to temporary directory.
The argument verbose (logical) determines should feedback be output to the console?
margen <- fetch(dat = "sepkoski", var = "genera", dir, verbose=FALSE)
Resolution
none
Archive size
sepkoski_genera_2002_kiessling: 2.71 MB
Version
2002_kiessling
Licence
Not specified
Reference
Sepkoski, J. J., Jablonski, D. & Foote, M. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology (363)