column labels for /data/bio/paleo-mammals.txt

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Closed chendaniely closed 9 years ago

chendaniely commented 10 years ago

the columns for this dataset are not clear (at least to me). It seems they are genus-species, common name, height?, genome size?, ???

below are the first 2 lines: Arctodus simus,Shortfaced Bear,1.7m,800K,10K Canis dirus,Dire Wolf,1.5m,1M,10K

gvwilson commented 10 years ago

I believe the columns are:

scientific name common name height/length oldest known fossil (yrs) youngest known fossil (yrs)

but I'm not 100% sure. Any paleontologists able to confirm?