Dataset from Zenodo · The Paleobiology Database Community
Denormalized occurrence and taxon tables of the Paleobiology Database
- License
- CC BY 4.0commercial use allowedLicense text
- This license allows commercial use. Usually you must credit the author; read the license for the exact terms.
- Formats
- TXT, ZIP, RDS
- Size
- 685 MB
- Updated
- Oct 13, 2026
Description
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 2026-10-11 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 https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/taxa/list.csv?datainfo&rowcount&all records&show=full,app,immparent,classext,etbasis,seq,img,ref,ent,entname,crmod 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.
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Files (8)
- TXTmetadata_occs.txt1 kB
- ZIPpbdb_parquet.zip151 MB
- RDSpbdb_occs.rds159 MB
- ZIPpbdb_csv.zip199 MB
- ZIPpbdb_taxa_parquet.zip64 MB
- ZIPpbdb_taxa_csv.zip54 MB
- TXTmetadata_taxa.txt691 byte
- RDSpbdb_taxa.rds58 MB
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