Paleobiology MCP server
online · 100% uptimeSearch fossil occurrences, taxon ranges, diversity through deep time, and the geologic time scale.
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How Paleobiology compares
Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 86/100
- higher than 77% of 3,470 Web search servers
- Uptime
- 100%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%
- Response time
- 484 ms
- faster than 31% of 2,238 Web search servers
- GitHub stars
- 2
- more than 70% of 1,786 Web search servers
- Downloads a week
- 108
- more than 58% of 827 Web search servers with a package
Release history: 5 versions in the registry since 2026-08-25, latest 2026-11-01, typically one every 16 days.
Install Paleobiology in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http paleobiology-mcp-server https://paleobiology.caseyjhand.com/mcp
What the publisher says
From the Paleobiology repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
@cyanheads/paleobiology-mcp-server Search fossil occurrences, resolve taxon fossil ranges, plot diversity through deep time, and look up the geologic time scale via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 8 Tools • 2 Resources
Public Hosted Server: https://paleobiology.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Overview
Fossil biodiversity over the Paleobiology Database (PBDB), spanning roughly 540 million years. Resolve taxon fossil ranges, search fossil occurrences and collections by taxon, geologic time, and location, and plot diversity through deep time from any MCP client. Runs as a stdio process, a local Streamable HTTP server, or the public hosted endpoint above.
Tools
Resources
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Paleobiology: common questions
- Is Paleobiology MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (86/100). Read the Paleobiology safety report
- How do I install Paleobiology?
- It runs remotely at paleobiology.caseyjhand.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Paleobiology need an API key?
- No secret keys are declared. It reads 7 settings from the environment.
- Is Paleobiology maintained?
- The last commit was 31 days ago (2026-10-04). The latest release is v0.5.0.
- Is Paleobiology up?
- 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- How does Paleobiology compare with other Web search MCP servers?
- safety score 86/100 (higher than 77% of 3,470 Web search servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%); response time 484 ms (faster than 31% of 2,238 Web search servers). Full comparison.