mo_explore_paleobioDB.Rmd

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title: "Exploring the paleobiology DB"
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# Background
The Paleobiology database is a data aggregator, compiling global fossil records across the tree of life.


# Objectives
After this exercise, the students will have an impression of the data available via the Paleobiology database and the meta-data associated with it.


# Exercise
Use the paleobiology webpage to explore the data available and to answer the following questions.

- How many records are there in PBDB?

- Which is the most common taxon?

- Where are most records from globally?

- How many records are there from the Paleogene?

- From which period is the oldest German fossil?

- What is the closest (reasonably identified) fossil to Berlin

- How old is it?