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

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.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 83088 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Paleobiology Database. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.