This dataset is a port of Sepkoski's (2002) published compendium of fossil marine animal genera. This version of the dataset was pulled from Shanan Peters' online database. No changes have been made to any taxonomic names or first and last appearance data. The definitions of stage/period abbreviations are provided in Sepkoski's (2002), or can be accessed via the included interval_table for convenience.
Format
A data.frame with 35826 rows and 8 variables:
- phylum
A character denoting the phylum of the taxon.
- class
A character denoting the class of the taxon.
- order
A character denoting the order of the taxon.
- genus
A character denoting the genus of the taxon.
- FOP
A character denoting the geological period of first occurrence.
- FOS
A character denoting the geological stage of last occurrence.
- LOP
A character denoting the geological period of first occurrence.
- LOS
A character denoting the geological stage of last occurrence.
Source
Shanan Peter's 'Sepkoski's Online Genus Database': http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/.