The Paleobiology Database

Most tables are relatively simple; the collection table has many fields that are described on a separate database structure page. We are working to add tables that will handle taxonomic authority information and taxonomic opinions (e.g., synonymies). At a later date we will add tables to handle phylogenetic relationships, ecomorphological attributes, stratigraphic sections, radioisotopic age estimates, and other data.

Some of the major datasets within the Paleobiology Database includes: -North American Mammalian Paleofaunal Database 2002 -Middle Devonian fossils of the Michigan Basin -Taxonomy and distribution of Late Jurassic - Eocene lissamphibians -Jurassic marine faunas of France, Greenland, Portugal, and the United Kingdom -Silurian and Early Devonian plants 2001 -Ivany Thesis Collection: Middle Eocene US Gulf Coast Macrofossils -Maastrichtian bivalve faunas of the world 1994 -Marine Bivalve Genera, Revision of Sepkoski's Compendium -Upper Cretaceous larger invertebrate fossils from the Haustator bilira zone of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains -Ordovician marine faunas of the world -Pennsylvanian-Permian Marine Benthos of the North American Midcontinent -PGAP's Permian, Triassic and Jurassic terrestrial megafloras of the world -Paleozoic marine faunas from the paleocontinent of Laurentia 1992 -Carboniferous terrestrial floras of North America and Europe -Late Paleocene - early Eocene macrofloras of southwestern Wyoming 2000