A non-governmental, non-profit public database for paleontological data providing researchers and the public with information about the entire fossil record. It has been organized and operated by a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, international group of paleobiological researchers. Its purpose is to provide global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic data for organisms of all geological ages, as well data services to allow easy access to data for independent development of analytical tools, visualization software, and applications of all types. The Database's broader goal is to encourage and enable data-driven collaborative efforts that address large-scale paleobiological questions. Paleontological data files are accepted for upload. However, PaleoBioDB needs some basic data types to be included in order to perform an upload. The Application Programming Interface (API) gives scientists, students, and developers programmatic access to taxonomic, spatial, and temporal data contained within the database.

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