paleobioDB (version 0.7.0)

pbdb_ref_taxa: pbdb_ref_taxa

Description

This URL path returns information about the source references associated with taxa in the Paleobiology Database. You can use the same parameters that are available with pbdb_taxa, but Reference records are returned instead of Taxon records. One record is returned per reference, even if it is associated with multiple taxa.

Usage

pbdb_ref_taxa (...)

Arguments

...

arguments passed to the API. See all available arguments in http://paleobiodb.org/data1.1/taxa/refs

• name: returns information about the most fundamental taxonomic name matching this string. The % and _ characters may be used as wildcards.

• id: returns information about the taxonomic name corresponding to this identifier. You may not specify both name and id in the same query.

• exact: if this parameter is specified, then the taxon exactly matching the specified name or identifier is selected, rather than the senior synonym which is the default.

• show: show extra variables

• rel: set rel="synonyms" to select all synonyms of the base taxon or taxa; rel="children" to select the taxa immediately contained within the base taxon or taxa; rel="common_ancestor" to select the most specific taxon that contains all of the base taxa.

• extant: TRUE/FALSE to select extant/extinct taxa.

Value

a dataframe with references from a list of taxa

Examples

# NOT RUN {
  pbdb_ref_taxa (name="Canidae", vocab="pbdb", show=c("attr", "app", "size", "nav")) 
# }