Returns information about multiple taxonomic opinions, selected according to criteria other than taxon name. This function could be used to query for all of the opinions attributed to a particular author, or to show all of the recently entered opinions.
pbdb_opinions(...)A data frame with information about the taxonomic opinions that match the query.
Arguments passed to the API. See documentation for accepted parameters at https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/opinions/list. E.g.:
id: Selects the opinions corresponding to the specified
identifier(s). You may provide more than one.
op_author: Selects only opinions attributed to the specified
author. Note that the opinion author(s) may be different from the
author(s) of the reference from which the opinion was
entered. This parameter accepts last names only, no first
initials. You can specify more than one author name, in which
case all opinions which match any of these will be selected.
ops_created_before: Select only records associated with taxa
that were created before the specified date or date/time. See
https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/datetime for documentation on
how to specify date/time values.
ops_created_after: Select only records associated with taxa
that were created on or after the specified date or
date/time. See https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/datetime for
documentation on how to specify date/time values.
op_type: You can use this parameter to retrieve all opinions,
or only the classification opinions, or only certain kinds of
opinions. The default is all opinions. Accepted values include:
"all" (the default), "class", "valid", "accepted",
"junior", "invalid".
if (FALSE) {
pbdb_opinions(op_pubyr = 1818)
}
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