@erscott, @david-butler, @lcone, @vperez, @llundgren, @egardner
This paper compares very large on-line”cloud” databases that contain fossil and modern Equus occurrence records from museum catalogs and field observations. I found that there are 125,000 records of Equus in these databases and these can be used to understand and track the location of this horse in space and time. This is one aspect of the future of paleontology–to harness big data to further knowledge about fossils.
This paper is open access, and can be freely downloaded at:
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2016.42