New body size data set added, chronosphere v.0.2.2

New data on body size is now added to the list of datasets available through the package. Access the data using the fetch() function.

bodysize <- fetch("bodysize", "heim")

The data set consists of the body sizes, stratigraphic ranges, and occurrence patterns of 9 408 genera of fossil marine animals spanning eight Linnaean classes across the past 485 Myr (Payne & Heim, 2020).

head(bodysize)

##     X               genus      phylum          class          order
## 1   1          Abadzekhia    Chordata      bony fish    Perciformes
## 2   4                Abra    Mollusca       Bivalvia       Cardiida
## 3 128         Abra (Abra)    Mollusca       Bivalvia      Veneroida
## 4 153    Abra (Syndosmya)    Mollusca       Bivalvia      Veneroida
## 5 158             Abrekia Brachiopoda Rhynchonellata Rhynchonellida
## 6 161 Absonocytheropteron  Arthropoda      Ostracoda     Podocopida
##            family    fad   lad     logsize    logvol
## 1                  33.90  33.9  2.65321251  5.947956
## 2       Semelidae  56.00   1.0  1.57978360  4.006990
## 3       Semelidae  41.30   1.0  1.36116100  3.385586
## 4       Semelidae  56.00  56.0  1.35945602  3.380739
## 5 Rhynchonellidae 252.17 247.2  1.06613949  2.604762
## 6                  38.00  38.0 -0.09309059 -1.059562