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Get information about multiple fossil specimens

Source: R/pbdb_queries.R
pbdb_specimens.Rd

Returns information about multiple fossil specimens, selected according to the parameters you provide. Depending upon which output blocks you select (show parameter), the response will contain some fields describing the specimens and some describing the occurrences and collections (if any) with which they are associated.

Usage

pbdb_specimens(...)

Arguments

...

Arguments passed to the API. See all available arguments at https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/specs/list. See the pbdb_occurrences() documentation for an explanation about the main filtering parameters.

Value

A data frame with the fossil specimens that match the query.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
  pbdb_specimens(base_name = "Cetacea", interval = "Miocene", vocab = "pbdb")
}