Paleobiology Database

About this source

Search fossil occurrences and collections by taxon, interval and place, get taxon details and diversity curves, and list geological intervals. Built by the palaeontology community.

Questions you can ask Paleobiology Database

Type them into Kahubi’s chat once the source is connected.

What the assistant can do with it

The 7 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

• paleobiology_search_occurrences

  Search fossil occurrences filtered by taxon, geologic time, geography, and depositional environment - the flagship.

• paleobiology_get_taxon

  Resolve a taxon by name (e.g.

• paleobiology_get_diversity

  Compute a diversity / origination / extinction curve for a clade across geologic time, binned by period, epoch, or age - answers "plot dinosaur genus diversity across the Mesozo...

• paleobiology_list_intervals

  Look up the geologic time scale - eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages with their absolute-age boundaries in millions of years (Ma) and nesting.

• paleobiology_search_collections

  Find fossil collections (localities) by area and geologic time - "what has been dug up here, and from what rock." Each locality returns its location, age (named interval and Ma)...

• paleobiology_dataframe_query

  Run a read-only SQL SELECT against occurrence result sets staged on a DataCanvas by paleobiology_search_occurrences.

• paleobiology_dataframe_describe

  List the tables and their columns staged on a DataCanvas by paleobiology_search_occurrences.

Good to know

• Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
• Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
• Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to Paleobiology Database.

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