A status report on a section-based stratigraphic and palaeontological database – the Geobiodiversity Database

Xu, Hong-He; Niu, Zhi-Bin; Chen, Yan-Sen

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3443-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3443-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3443-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

Data description paper

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15 Dec 2020

Data description paper |

| 15 Dec 2020

A status report on a section-based stratigraphic and palaeontological database – the Geobiodiversity Database

Hong-He Xu, Zhi-Bin Niu, and Yan-Sen Chen

Data sets

Data of fossils and sections of the Geobiodiversity Database (GBDB) (Version 5-Nov-2020) Hong-He Xu https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4245604

Model code and software

three-dimensional bar graph visualizing the Mesozoic stratigraphic formations from China Hong-He Xu https://doi.org/10.12091/GBDB.202001106

Short summary

We introduce here a comprehensive database of stratigraphy and palaeontology biodiversity, the Geobiodiversity Database (GBDB). The GBDB collects and provides a big volume of fossil and stratum record data and aims to be more widely used by geoscientists and contribute to better quantitative research on palaeontology and stratigraphy, and furthermore, to a deeper understanding of the evolution of life and of Earth's history.