Ben Moon

A palaeontologist with a penchant for things that swim

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New Palaeogeographical Maps in R

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I’ve added a new research page linked from my homepage and the first thing up is an extended workshop that I ran on plotting palaeogeographical maps and occ...

Building Palaeogeographic Maps in R

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At the end of last year, I was looking at data from the Palaeobiology Database (PBDB) and wanted to draw a map of where fossils were found. I made such maps ...

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