pbdb_taxa: pbdb_taxa
In paleobioDB: Download and Process Data from the Paleobiology Database

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Returns information about multiple taxonomic names. This function can be used to query for all of the children or parents of a given taxon, among other operations.

1	pbdb_taxa (...)

...

arguments passed to the API. See all available arguments in http://paleobiodb.org/data1.1/taxa/list

name: returns information about the most fundamental taxonomic name matching this string. The % and _ characters may be used as wildcards.
id: return information about the taxonomic name corresponding to this identifier. You may not specify both name and id in the same query.
exact: if this parameter is specified, then the taxon exactly matching the specified name or identifier is selected, rather than the senior synonym which is the default.
show: to show extra variables: attr the attribution of this taxon (author and year); app the age of first and last appearance of this taxon from the occurrences recorded in this database; size the number of subtaxa appearing in this database; nav additional information for the PBDB Navigator taxon browser
rel: set rel="synonyms" to select all synonyms of the base taxon or taxa; rel="children" to select the taxa immediately contained within the base taxon or taxa; rel="common_ancestor" to select the most specific taxon that contains all of the base taxa.
extant: TRUE/FALSE to select extant/extinct taxa.

a dataframe with information from a list of taxa

## Not run: 
pbdb_taxa (name="Canidae", vocab="pbdb", 
show=c("attr", "app", "size", "nav"))
pbdb_taxa (id =c(10, 11), vocab="pbdb", 
show=c("attr", "app", "size", "nav"))
pbdb_taxa (id =c(10, 11), vocab="pbdb", 
show=c("attr", "app", "size", "nav"), rel="common_ancestor")

## End(Not run)