Mapping Worldwide Fossil Finds

The PBDB Navigator is an interactive map which allows you lot to explore worldwide fossil discoveries yesteryear location, fourth dimension together with taxonomy. The map provides a actually tardily to purpose navigational tool to browse the global Paleobiology Database.

Each point on the map represents a collection of fossils. If you lot pick out a point on the map you lot tin laissez passer the sack stance detailed data on the fossil collection number, release of occurrences, the fourth dimension period, the place together with the reference of where these occurrences came from.

Beneath the map is a geological timeline which allows you lot to filter the map yesteryear a specific geologic fourth dimension period. If you lot pick out a fourth dimension current from the timeline the timeline volition zoom inwards to the selected timescale. You tin laissez passer the sack similar a shot pick out a fourth dimension current to filter the map to alone demo fossil records from your chosen geologic time.


You tin laissez passer the sack also purpose the 'paleogeography' push clit inwards the principal map bill of fare to alter the map stance from the modern globe map to a paleo continental map for your selected geologic time.

You tin laissez passer the sack also search the fossil records yesteryear specific organism using the 'taxa browser' push clit inwards the map menu. This allows you lot to filter the records yesteryear taxonomic name. For event you lot could search for the genus 'Canis' to demo alone Canis fossils on the map.

You tin laissez passer the sack combine the taxonomy together with geologic fourth dimension filters to search for specific species fossils inside a defined fourth dimension period. For example, you lot could pick out the genus 'Canis' from the taxonomic filter together with the current 'Cenozoic' from the geologic timeline to stance a map of all the Canis fossils institute roughly the globe from the Cenozoic period.