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Published December 16, 2025 | Version 20251216
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Denormalized occurrence table of the Paleobiology Database

Description

Comprehensive denormalized occurrence table built with the API of the Paleobiology Database (http://paleobiodb.org/). Archived for the Chronosphere project by Ádám T. Kocsis.

Downloaded on 2025-12-16 with the API call:

https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/occs/list.csv?datainfo&rowcount&interval=Ediacaran,Holocene&show=class,classext,genus,subgenus,coll,coords,loc,paleoloc,strat,stratext,lith,env,ref,crmod,timebins,timecompare,refattr,entname,attr,ident,img,plant,abund,ecospace,taphonomy,etbasis,pres,prot,lithext,geo,methods,resgroup,refattr,ent

Contents:

  • pbdb_occs.rds: occurrence table in binary R data file.
  • pbdb_parquet.zip: occurrence table, zipped parquet file
  • pbdb_csv.zip: occurrence table, zipped csv file
  • metadata.txt: The metadata of the download.

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