Denormalized occurrence and taxon tables of the Paleobiology Database

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

Downloaded on 2026-10-18 with the API calls:

https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/occs/list.csv?datainfo&rowcount&all_records&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

and

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_occs.txt: The metadata of the download.
• pbdb_taxa.rds: Taxon table in binary R data file.
• pbdb_taxa_parquet.zip: Taxon table, zipped parquet file
• pbdb_taxa_csv.zip: Taxon table, zipped csv file
• metadata_taxa.txt: The metadata of the taxon download.