The Paleobiology Database seeks to provide researchers and the public with information about the entire fossil record. It stores global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic data for marine and terrestrial animals and plants of any geological age, as well as web-based software for statistical analysis of the data.

Prefix
paleodb
Keywords
taxonomy
Links
Homepage
Contact
Missing Contact
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Paleobiology Database should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
83088   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Paleobiology Database should match this regular expression:
^paleodb:\d+$

Example CURIE
paleodb:83088
Metaregistry Paleobiology Database

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 4 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BioContext biocontext PALEODB
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam paleodb
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t paleodb
Prefix Commons Prefix Commons logo prefixcommons paleodb
Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE paleodb:83088 is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name Metaprefix URI
Paleobiology Database paleodb http://fossilworks.org/?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=83088
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/paleodb:83088
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/paleodb:83088
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/paleodb:83088
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.

Code Name URL
bio2rdf Bio2RDF http://bio2rdf.org/paleodb:83088