Values of clade diversity for many clades of organisms (note some clades are nested within other clades in the dataset). This dataset is part of the package and is licensed =under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
Format
A data.frame with 598 rows and 6 columns.
- clade
Time series clade
- source
Primary source of the Time series
- stem_age
Stem age of clade
- rel_time
Geological relative time (in Million years ago relative to present)
- time_ma
Geological time in million years since clade stem age
- richness
Number of species at given geological time
Source
Data originally compiled from many primary sources. Organized, curated by, and downloaded from, Rabosky & Benson (2021).
Details
Legend:
anth = Anthozoa (Cnidaria);
art = Articulata (Crinoidea, Echinodermata);
biv = Bivalvia (Mollusca);
bryo = Bryozoa (Lophotrochozoa, Ectoprocta);
ceph = Cephalopoda (Mollusca);
chon = Chondrocytes (Chordata);
crin = Crinoidea (Echinodermata);
dinosauria = Dinosauria (Chordata);
ech = Echinoidea (Echinodermata);
foram = Foraminifera (Retaria);
gast = Gastropoda (Mollusca);
graptoloids = Graptolites (Graptolithina);
ling = Ligulata (Brachiopoda);
ostr = Ostracoda (Crustacea, Arthropoda);
tril = Trilobita (Arthropoda).