collSilur {divvy}

Paleobiology Database collections of Silurian marine fossils

Description

A dataset containing the (palaeo)coordinates and recorded marine environment of 8,000 PBDB fossil collections from the Silurian, formatted and downloaded from the Paleobiology Database on 24 June 2022.

Usage

collSilur

Format

A data frame with 8345 rows and 7 variables:

paleolng, paleolat

Coordinates of a collection, rotated to its palaeogeographic location with the tectonic plate model of GPlates

collection_no, reference_no

Unique identifier for the collection and its published reference

environment

One of 23 marine environment categories

max_ma, min_ma

Bounds of the age estimate for a collection

Source

https://paleobiodb.org/