Quick start - Problematic fossils

CoordinateCleaner includes a set of functions suited for fossil records including tests for imprecise or erroneous dating. clean_fossils is a wrapper including relevant spatial and temporal tests. As all test the temporal tests can be called individually, using the cf_equal, cf_range and cf_outl functions.

Please find a detailed tutorial on how to clean occurrence records (e.g. from GBIF) here and how to clean fossil data (e.g. from PBDB) here.

library(CoordinateCleaner)

# Simulate example data
minages <- runif(250, 0, 65)
exmpl <- data.frame(accepted_name = sample(letters, size = 250, replace = TRUE),
                    lng = runif(250, min = 42, max = 51),
                    lat = runif(250, min = -26, max = -11),
                    min_ma = minages,
                    max_ma = minages + runif(250, 0.1, 65))

# Run fossil test
test <- clean_fossils(x = exmpl)

summary(test)
##     .aeq     .cen     .equ     .gbf    .inst     .spt     .trg     .zer 
##        0        0        0        0        0        0        0        0 
## .summary 
##        0