Category | Type | Name | Description | Link |
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Occurrence | Database | Paleobiology Database | A public database of paleontological occurrence data gathered from the published record, maintained by an international non-governmental group of paleontologists. | http://paleobiodb.org |
Occurrence | Database | Geobiodiversity Database | An integrated system for the management and analysis of stratigraphic and paleontological information, mostly covering China. | http://geobiodiversity.com |
Occurrence | Database | Neotoma | A database of fossil occurrences and other associated data primarily covering the Pliocene-Quaternary. | http://neotomadb.org |
Occurrence | Database | GBIF | An international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing open access to data about a variety of life on Earth. | http://gbif.org |
Occurrence | Database | iDigBio | Data and images for millions of biological specimens, curated, connected and made available in electronic format for the biological research community. | http://idigbio.org |
Occurrence | Database | Neptune | A relational database of microfossil occurrence records from DSDP and ODP publications. | http://nsb.mfn-berlin.de |
Occurrence | Database | BioDeepTime | A database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages | http://dio.org/10.1111/geb.13735 |
Occurrence | Database | Phylacine | The Phylogenetic Atlas of Mammal Macroecology which provides phylogenies, range maps, trait data, and threat status for all 5,831 known mammal species that lived since the last interglacial (~130,000 years ago until present). | http://megapast2future.github.io/PPHYLACINE_1.2/ |
Occurrence | Database | PARED | Data for Phanerozoic reefs in a standardised format, with geological, geographic and paleontological information for each reef. | http://paleo-reefs.pal.uni-Erlangen.de |
3D Data | Database | DigiMorph | A dynamic archive of information on digital morphology and high-resolution X-ray computed tomography of biological specimens | http://digimorph.org |
3D Data | Database | Morphobank | Provides data related to phenotypes as well as peer reviewed morphological matrices. | http://morphobank.org |
3D Data | Database | Phenome10k | Provides 3D scans, both CT and surface, of biological and palaeontological specimens. | http://www.phenome10.org |
3D Data | Database | Morphosource | A 3D data repository for physical object important to natural histyory, cultural heritage and scientific collections. | http://morphosource.org |
3D Data | Database | Digital Atlas of Ancient Life | Contains online fieldguides to fossils from particular times and regions, but also a virtual collection of 3D photogrammetry models of fossil and modern specimens from museum collections. | https://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/ |
Traits | List of Databases/Datasets | Open Traits Network | A global community of researchers/institutions, which provide links to a variety of open source trait databases. | https://opentraits.org |
Traits | Database | Coral Trait Database | A compilation of scleractinian coral life history trait, phylogenetic and biogeographic data. | https://www.coraltraits.org/ |
Covariates | Database | Macrostrat | A platform for the aggregation and distribution of geological data relevant to the spatial and temporal distribution of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks as well as data extracted from them. | http://macrostrat.org |
Covariates | Dataset | USGS Geological Maps of North America | Digital geologic maps of the US states with consistent lithology, age, GIS database structure, and format. | https://mrdata.usgs.gov/geology/state/ |
Covariates | Database | Mindat | The world's largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from. | https://www.mindat.org/ |
Covariates | Database | WorldClim | Maps, graphs, tables, and data of the global climate. | http://worldclim.org |
Covariates | Dataset | ESA WorldCover | A freely accessible global land cover product at 10 m resolution for 2020 based on both Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 dat. | http://esa-worldcover.org/en |
Covariates | Dataset | Digital Elevation Maps | Global 1-km digital elevation raster data derived from a variety of sources. | https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/science/usgs-eros-archive-digital-elevation-global-30-arc-second-elevation-gtopo30?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects |
Covariates | Dataset | Global Maximum Green Vegetation Fraction | A MODIS-Based Global 1-km Maximum Green Vegetation Fraction dataset. | https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0356.1 |
Covariates | Dataset | Deep Time Maps | Global and regional paleogeographic maps for different times in Earth history. | https://deeptimemaps.com/about-us/ |
Covariates | Dataset | Paleomap Project | Global paleogeographic maps for different times in Earth history. | http://www.scotese.com/ |
Other Database Resources | List of Databases/Datasets | PAGES working group databases | Databases and metadatabases compiled by PAGES Working Groups. | https://pastglobalchanges.org/science/data/databases |
Other Database Resources | List of Databases/Datasets | List of paleo databases | Examples of databases and online data portals used for paleobiological and (paleo)ecological research, along with their primary temporal, spatial, and taxonomic scope. | https://zenodo.org/records/7340036 |
Coding Resources | Cheatsheet | R cheatsheets | Cheatsheets for popular R packages. | https://posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/ |
Coding Resources | Software | List of paleo R packages | Examples of programming packages and tools that are commonly used to analyze and visualize paleo data. | https://zenodo.org/records/7340036 |
Data Visualization | Cheatsheet | R Graph Gallery | A collection of charts made with the R programming language, and guides on making these plots. | https://r-graph-gallery.com/ |