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Get information about a single occurrence record

Source: R/pbdb_queries.R
pbdb_occurrence.Rd

Returns information about a single occurrence record from the Paleobiology Database.

Usage

pbdb_occurrence(id, ...)

Arguments

id

Identifier of the occurrence. This parameter is required.

...

Arguments passed to the API. See all available arguments at https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/occs/single. E.g.:

  • vocab: Set to "pbdb" to show the complete name of the variables (by default variables have short 3-letter names).

  • show: Select additional blocks of information to be returned along with the basic record. Some possible values include:

    • "class": The taxonomic classification of the occurence: phylum, class, order, family, genus.

    • "coords": The latitude and longitude of this occurrence.

    • "loc": Additional information about the geographic locality of the occurrence

    • "stratext": Detailed information about the stratigraphic context of the occurrence.

    • "lithext": Detailed information about the lithological context of the occurrence.

Value

A data frame with a single occurrence.

Details

Documentation for all the parameters is available at https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/occs/single. In the parameter list above, we describe the most common filters that paleontologists and ecologists might use.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  pbdb_occurrence(id = 1001)
  pbdb_occurrence(id = 1001, vocab = "pbdb", show = c("class", "coords"))
} # }