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Occurrence of dinosaur fossils
Description
Many dinosaur (including avian species) fossil occurrences from different moments of the geological past. Much information (i.e., extra columns) was removed from the original dataset to make it more compact, but it can be fully accessed by the data URL. This dataset is part of the package and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Usage
dinos_fossil
Format
A data.frame
containing 15527 rows and 13 columns
- phylum
Organism phylum
- class
Organism taxonomic class
- order
Organism taxonomic order
- family
Organism taxonomic family
- genus
Organism genus
- species
Organism specific name
- early_interval
Earlier known geological period of occurrence
- late_interval
Later known geological period of occurrence
- max_ma
Occurrence's oldest time boundary in million years
- min_ma
Occurrence's newest time boundary in million years
- midpoint
Midpoint between max_ma and min_ma
- lng
Longitude of place where occurrence was found. Follows decimal degree format.
- lat
Latitude of place where occurrence was found. Follows decimal degree format.
Source
The Paleobiology Database (downloaded on 2022-03-11).
Data URL: http://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/occs/list.csv?datainfo&rowcount&base_name=Dinosauria&show=full,classext,genus,subgenus,acconly,ident,img,etbasis,strat,lith,env,timebins,timecompare,resgroup,ref,ent,entname,crmod