PaleoDex - Fossils & Dinosaurs

PaleoDex

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About this app

🦴 PaleoDex — the real fossil record, in your pocket.

Every creature in PaleoDex actually lived. No invented species, no made-up
stats, no cartoon dinosaurs: 🦕 over 74,000 real prehistoric genera drawn from
open scientific databases, backed by roughly 1.8 million genuine fossil
occurrence records from 212 countries and territories. If a fact isn't
sourced, we leave it blank rather than guess.

🗺️ EXPLORE A LIVE MAP OF REAL DIG SITES
RADAR plots authentic fossil localities on a dark tactical world map. 📍 Turn
on location to see the genuine finds nearest you with distance and bearing, or
pan anywhere on Earth and scan that region. Dense sites cluster into one pin
and expand as you zoom. Location is entirely optional — the whole world is
explorable without it.

📋 READ PROPER FIELD DOSSIERS
Every genus opens into a sourced dossier: a real illustration or photograph
where one exists (never a blank — a clean category silhouette stands in), a
live 🧬 Scientific Classification pulled from the Open Tree of Life, geological
period and age, where it has been found, the rock it's preserved in, and how it
lived — movement, habitat, diet and reproduction, inferred from fossil ecology
data and labelled as such. Where the record allows, you also get verbatim
encyclopedia sections on description, feeding, locomotion, behaviour and
discovery. 📚 Over 22,000 genera carry written profiles; more than 12,500 have
a quick fact.

⏳ TRAVEL 540 MILLION YEARS
Continental Drift animates Earth's real paleogeography from today back to the
Cambrian. 🌍 Drag the time slider and watch the continents reassemble, with the
emblematic creatures of each period plotted where they actually lived.
Reconstructions older than about 200 million years are honestly marked
approximate.

⛏️ DIG IN FOSSIL RUN
Sweep a handheld detector across four biomes modelled on real formations —
🏜️ Badlands (Hell Creek), ❄️ Ice Age Plains (Pleistocene tundra), 🌊 Inland Sea
(Western Interior Seaway) and 🌿 Coal Forest (Carboniferous swamp). The signal
warms as you close in, then a timing-ring excavation decides your specimen's
condition, from Fragmented to a flawless ✨ Perfect. Every fossil you dig up is
a real, documented species.

🏛️ BUILD A MUSEUM, CLIMB THE RANKS
Collected specimens fill category halls in your personal Museum. 💎 Earn
Fragments to upgrade your field kit, chase Perfect condition, and 🏆 climb an
eight-tier Collector Rank from Site Rookie to Paleontologist. Collect a
specimen in person at a genuine dig site and it earns prestige ⭐ field status.
An optional, anonymous leaderboard ranks skill across every biome.

📡 STAY CURRENT
A built-in feed streams real paleontology news from major science outlets, in
English and Spanish.

✅ BUILT HONESTLY
🌐 Fully bilingual English and Spanish
📴 Works offline — your collection lives on your device
☁️ Optional Google sign-in backs up your progress and restores it on a new phone
🔔 Optional daily fossil fact
🗑️ Delete all of your data from inside the app, any time

🔬 Data from the Paleobiology Database, GBIF, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons,
Wikidata, the Open Tree of Life and PhyloPic.

PaleoDex is free to play. Optional purchases add extra daily dig charges — all
gear and progression are always earned, never bought. 🎯

What’s new

PaleoDex is live. The real fossil record, in your pocket — 74,000+ real genera, 1.8M+ fossil occurrences, sourced from the Paleobiology Database.
RADAR: real fossil finds near you. FossilRun: dig them up yourself. Fossil-DEX: the full catalogue. Continental Drift: 540M years, one map. SIGNAL: live paleontology news. Collector Rank: your progress.
No invented creatures, no made-up stats. Welcome to the field.