get_fossil_range

This uses the Paleobiology Database's API to gather information on the ages for all specimens of a taxon. It will also look for all descendants of the taxon. It fixes name misspellings if possible.

Methods and workflows to get chronograms (i.e., phylogenetic trees with branch lengths
proportional to time), using open, peer-reviewed, state-of-the-art scientific data on time of lineage divergence.
This package constitutes the main underlying code of the DateLife web service
at <https://www.datelife.org>. To obtain a single summary chronogram from a group of
relevant chronograms, we implement the Super Distance Matrix (SDM) method
described in Criscuolo et al. (2006) <doi:10.1080/10635150600969872>.
To find the grove of chronograms with a sufficiently overlapping set of taxa
for summarizing, we implement theorem 1.1. from Ané et al. (2009)
<doi:10.1007/s00026-009-0017-x>.
A given phylogenetic tree can be dated using time of lineage divergence data
as secondary calibrations (with caution, see Schenk (2016) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0148228>).
To obtain and apply secondary calibrations, the package implements the congruification method described
in Eastman et al. (2013) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12051>. Tree dating can be performed with different methods
including BLADJ (Webb et al. (2008) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn358>), PATHd8
(Britton et al. (2007) <doi:10.1080/10635150701613783>), mrBayes (Huelsenbeck
and Ronquist (2001) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/17.8.754>), and treePL (Smith
and O'Meara (2012) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts492>).

Luna L. Sanchez Reyes

datelife

Scientific Data on Time of Lineage Divergence for Your Taxa

Brian O'Meara

Jonathan Eastman

Tracy Heath

April Wright

Klaus Schliep

Scott Chamberlain

Peter Midford

Luke Harmon

Joseph Brown

Matt Pennell

Mike Alfaro

Emily Jane McTavish

get_fossil_range function

<dl><dt>taxon</dt>
<dd>The scientific name of the taxon you want the range of occurrences of</dd>
<dt>recent</dt>
<dd>If TRUE, forces the minimum age to be zero</dd>
<dt>assume_recent_if_missing</dt>
<dd>If TRUE, any taxon missing from pbdb is assumed to be recent</dd></dl>

Arguments

Get the ages for a taxon from PBDB — get_fossil_range

<dl>

<dt>taxon</dt>
<dd>The scientific name of the taxon you want the range of occurrences of</dd>


<dt>recent</dt>
<dd>If TRUE, forces the minimum age to be zero</dd>


<dt>assume_recent_if_missing</dt>
<dd>If TRUE, any taxon missing from pbdb is assumed to be recent</dd>

</dl>

Get the ages for a taxon from PBDB

get_fossil_range: Get the ages for a taxon from PBDB

Description

Usage

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Arguments