FIELD INSTRUMENT · LIVE ON ANDROID

The real fossil record,
in your pocket.

PaleoDex is a paleontology explorer built on open science data — over 74,000 real genera and 1.8 million fossil occurrence records, turned into a live map, a sourced field dossier, and a dig game. Every species actually lived.

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LIVE ON ANDROID · iOS COMING SOON ◈ 74,000+ REAL GENERA
PaleoDex app — fossil radar screen
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⬡ MYTHIC FIND
FIELD SYSTEMS

Six tools, one field kit

Select a system to see it running in the app.

    PaleoDex Radar screen: a live GPS map with a selected specimen card for a Tyrannosaurus, marked MYTHIC rarity, showing distance in kilometers.
    // CONTINENTAL DRIFT

    Everything connects.

    Watch the continents drift — from today all the way back 540 million years — as climates shift and each period’s characteristic life surfaces on the live map. Every creature you find takes its place in the bigger story.

    • →Featured Finds — the emblematic genera of each era surface as you scrub the timeline.
    • →Plate Tectonics — watch the map and climate shift across eras using real paleogeographic reconstructions.
    • →All 12 Periods — tap any geological period to see its world, biome, and characteristic life forms.
    • →Explore all 12 periods →
    Continental drift map
    FossilRun excavation screen
    // HOW IT WORKS

    Explore, hunt, and collect.

    01

    Explore

    Open the Radar to see real fossil discovery sites near your location, or browse the map to any region of the world. Every pin is a documented occurrence from the fossil record — species, age, and coordinates included.

    02

    Hunt

    In FossilRun the game radar is always active, tracking dig sites in real time as you move. When you reach a site, time your strikes on the excavation ring to uncover the specimen. Every species revealed is a real, documented genus.

    03

    Collect

    Excavated species go into your Museum, ranked by rarity and condition. Look up any of the 74,000+ genera in the Fossil-DEX — the full sourced catalogue — for its scientific classification, fossil record, and field data.

    // THE DATA

    No invented creatures. No made-up stats.

    PaleoDex is built on open paleontology data — the Paleobiology Database, GBIF, the Open Tree of Life and more. If a fact isn't sourced, PaleoDex leaves it blank rather than guessing. That's the rule, and it's genuinely true.

    SOURCE WHAT IT PROVIDES
    Paleobiology Database (PBDB)The backbone: genera, ~1.8M fossil occurrences, ages, formations, environments, and paleo-coordinates.
    GBIFExtinct-vs-living status flags across thousands of genera.
    Wikipedia / Wikimedia CommonsField write-ups and real species photographs.
    WikidataStructured facts and cross-references.
    Open Tree of LifeThe live scientific classification (Kingdom → Genus lineage) shown in every dossier.
    PhyloPicClean CC0 category silhouettes used as image fallbacks.
    Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)Supplementary trait and ecology enrichment.
    GPlates / paleogeographic modelThe continental-drift reconstructions on the Continental Drift map.
    MapTiler · MapLibre · OpenStreetMapThe live base world map.

    → How we source every fact →

    // START DIGGING

    Start your field log — 540 million years of real life await.

    PaleoDex is live now on Android. Get it on Google Play and start digging today.

    GET IT ON GOOGLE PLAY →
    // iOS

    iOS is on the way. Leave your email and we'll let you know the moment it lands.

    NO DIG LICENSE REQUIRED
    // FIELD MANUAL

    Questions from the trail.