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Use our data

Tools on the site also let you generate paleomaps, data summary tables, lists of common taxa, first appearances, diversity curves, ecological statistics, time scale confidence intervals, stratigraphic confidence intervals, and (just for fun) paper title stats.

All of our data can be downloaded, including collection, occurrence, or specimen records, taxonomic names and opinions, measurements of specimens, and Neptune occurrences.

Other resources

Students may want to see our paleogeographic animations, virtual globes, and lists of dinosaur facts and figures, or learn about a random species.

Professional researchers are encouraged to join the Database and students may want to apply for the 2013 analytical methods workshop.

More about us

The Paleobiology Database is housed at Macquarie University and overseen by the major data contributors, with daily supervision by John Alroy and software development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison which also maintains a mirror of this site.. You may want to read our FAQ and our lists of participating researchers, participating institutions, Online Systematics Archives, and official publications.