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Protohedgehog committed Aug 2, 2019
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3. What implications does this have on their diversity/extinction patterns?
4. What is the structure of growth in terms of geography?

Data sources: [The Paleobiology Database](https://paleobiodb.org/#/)
Data sources: [Fossilworks](http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?user=Guest&action=displayDownloadForm)

Notes on data selction:
* Restricted to Mesozoic groups as the data are most complete
* Downloaded occurences from [here](http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?user=Guest&action=displayDownloadForm) using the 'full form' option
* Basic options: Set taxonomic level to species; set time span as 'Mesozoic'
* Included collections: Keep all default options set
* Included occurrences: Remove ichnofossils and form taxa; keep all other default options set
* Colletion fields: basic fields, check all; geography fields, check all; time fields, check all; stratigraphy fields, check all; lithology fields, check all; no taphonomy or collection methods required
* Occurence fields: check ocurence no, reference no, year published, taxon no, type specimen, type locality


Groups:
* Dinosauria (minus Aves)
* Aves
* Testudinata
* Choristodera
* Crocodyliformes
* Ichythyosauria
* Lepidosauromorpha
* Lissamphibia
* Mammaliaformes
* Pterosauria
* Sauropterygia
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