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Fossil Time series
Description
Values of clade diversity for many clades of organisms (note some clades are nested within other clades in the dataset). This dataset is part of the package and is licensed =under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Usage
timeseries_fossil
Format
A data.frame
with 598 rows and 6 columns.
- clade
Time series clade
- source
Primary source of the Time series
- stem_age
Stem age of clade
- rel_time
Geological relative time (in Million years ago relative to present)
- time_ma
Geological time in million years since clade stem age
- richness
Number of species at given geological time
Details
Legend:
anth = Anthozoa (Cnidaria);
art = Articulata (Crinoidea, Echinodermata);
biv = Bivalvia (Mollusca);
bryo = Bryozoa (Lophotrochozoa, Ectoprocta);
ceph = Cephalopoda (Mollusca);
chon = Chondrocytes (Chordata);
crin = Crinoidea (Echinodermata);
dinosauria = Dinosauria (Chordata);
ech = Echinoidea (Echinodermata);
foram = Foraminifera (Retaria);
gast = Gastropoda (Mollusca);
graptoloids = Graptolites (Graptolithina);
ling = Ligulata (Brachiopoda);
ostr = Ostracoda (Crustacea, Arthropoda);
tril = Trilobita (Arthropoda).
Source
Data originally compiled from many primary sources. Organized, curated by, and downloaded from, Rabosky & Benson (2021).
References
Rabosky, D. L., & Benson, R. B. (2021). Ecological and biogeographic drivers of biodiversity cannot be resolved using clade age-richness data. Nature Communications, 12(1), 2945.