A dataset containing the (palaeo)coordinates and recorded marine environment of 8,000 PBDB fossil collections from the Silurian, formatted and downloaded from the Paleobiology Database on 24 June 2022.
Format
A data frame with 8345 rows and 7 variables:
- paleolng, paleolat
Coordinates of a collection, rotated to its palaeogeographic location with the tectonic plate model of GPlates
- collection_no, reference_no
Unique identifier for the collection and its published reference
- environment
One of 23 marine environment categories
- max_ma, min_ma
Bounds of the age estimate for a collection