downloadPaleogeography {velociraptr}

Downloads paleogeographic maps

Description

Download a paleogeographic map for an age expressed in millions of years ago.

Usage

downloadPaleogeography(Age = 0)

Arguments

Age

A whole number up to 550

Details

Downloads a map of paleocontinents for a specific age from Macrostrat.org as a shapefile. The given age must be expressed as a whole number. Note that the function makes use of the rgdal and RCurl packages.

Value

A simple features object

Author(s)

Andrew A. Zaffos

Examples

# Download a test dataset of Maastrichtian bivalves.
# DataPBDB<-downloadPBDB(Taxa="Bivalvia",StartInterval="Maastrichtian",StopInterval="Maastrichtian")

# Download a paleogeographic map.
# KTBoundary<-downloadPaleogeography(Age=66)

# Plot the paleogeographic map (uses rgdal) and the PBDB points.
# plot(KTBoundary,col="grey")
# points(x=DataPBDB[,"paleolng"],y=DataPBDB[,"paleolat"],pch=16,cex=2)