https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.m0cfxpp94

Description of the data and file structure

This dataset consists of an excel spreadsheet with 6 sheets.
1. Sheet descriptions: describes what is in each of the other 4 sheets.
2. Metadata: describes the headings for the “core data” sheet.
3. Abbreviations
4. Types: describes the different bone measurements included in our dataset.
5. Core data: all bone measurements collected in our systematic review, along with the other data described in “metadata”
6. Accession numbers: citations for all data included in the dataset. Accession numbers are also included in “core data” so they can be matched easily.

Because of the nature of our dataset (several types of measurements, and no single data entry had every single one), there are many blanks in our dataset. They are filled as “NA.”

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