timeseries_fossil: Fossil Time series

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Fossil Time series

Description

Values of clade diversity for many clades of organisms (note some clades are nested within other clades in the dataset). This dataset is part of the package and is licensed =under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Usage

timeseries_fossil

Format

A data.frame with 598 rows and 6 columns.

clade

Time series clade

source

Primary source of the Time series

stem_age

Stem age of clade

rel_time

Geological relative time (in Million years ago relative to present)

time_ma

Geological time in million years since clade stem age

richness

Number of species at given geological time

Details

Legend:
anth = Anthozoa (Cnidaria);
art = Articulata (Crinoidea, Echinodermata);
biv = Bivalvia (Mollusca);
bryo = Bryozoa (Lophotrochozoa, Ectoprocta);
ceph = Cephalopoda (Mollusca);
chon = Chondrocytes (Chordata);
crin = Crinoidea (Echinodermata);
dinosauria = Dinosauria (Chordata);
ech = Echinoidea (Echinodermata);
foram = Foraminifera (Retaria);
gast = Gastropoda (Mollusca);
graptoloids = Graptolites (Graptolithina);
ling = Ligulata (Brachiopoda);
ostr = Ostracoda (Crustacea, Arthropoda);
tril = Trilobita (Arthropoda).

Source

Data originally compiled from many primary sources. Organized, curated by, and downloaded from, Rabosky & Benson (2021).

References

Rabosky, D. L., & Benson, R. B. (2021). Ecological and biogeographic drivers of biodiversity cannot be resolved using clade age-richness data. Nature Communications, 12(1), 2945.

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