Paleontological data can be obtained from specialized online databases, and can be processed using specialized libraries. Here, I will use the NOW (New and Old World) database of fossil mammals to plot the distribution of mammoths in Europe and use the R library deeptime (Gearty, 2023) to clean up the data.
![](http://biodiv.smultron.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/mammoth_europe_map.png)