Quaternary European Mammal Occurrence and Trait Data

Occurrence dataset: A large dataset of fossil mammal occurrence data for the Quaternary (Pleistocene and Holocene) of Europe. Occurrence data comprises species or genus name, specimen information where possible, geological unit specimen was found in, age (range) of specimen and/or geological unit and any other relevant information. Data taken from multiple sources, including the Palaeobiology Database (PBDB), an open-access community dataset of global fossil occurrences (and some trait data) for all time periods and taxonomic groups. Our dataset used only the mammal records from our study region and time period. Data was taken from the NOW (New and Old Worlds) Database of fossil mammals (NOW database), another open-access community dataset. This database contains only mammal occurrence and trait data for fossil mammals throughout geological history and across the world. All additional occurrence data was collected first hand from the literature.

Trait dataset: Trait data for species in the occurrence dataset. Including (but not limited to) body size data, collected as lower first molar length and width).