Data from: Morphological disparity and evolutionary patterns of Cambrian hyoliths
Data files
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hyolithsmorphospace.csv
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README.md
Abstract
Hyolitha represents one of the major components of the Cambrian evolutionary fauna, first appearing in the Terreneuvian and rapidly diversifying soon after. Recent work has both enriched the hyolith fossil records and expanded our understanding of their biology, but studies documenting the evolutionary trajectory of Cambrian hyoliths remain scarce. Here we present the first study of changes in morphological disparity in Cambrian hyoliths over time with the aim of characterizing the evolutionary trajectory of hyoliths through their primary period of diversification. Our results show that hyoliths occupy distinct regions of morphospace at different times during the Cambrian, with an expansion in morphospace occupation associated with the increase in hyolith diversity in the early Cambrian. Both the Sinsk Event and multiple abiotic factors led to a decline in hyolith diversity in the Miaolingian, and morphological disparity also contracts in association with this reduction in diversity.
README: Data from: Morphological disparity and evolutionary patterns of Cambrian hyoliths
https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.12jm63z4r
Description of the data and file structure
hyolithsmorphospace.csv.-The data contains the character state matrix of Cambrian hyolith taxa, which is used for analyses of Cambrian hyoliths disparity in R version 4.2.3
Code/Software
analyses-(hyolithsmorphospace).R- the code for R version 4.2.3 to analyse the Cambrian hyoliths disparity.
NMDS data in PAST.dat - the file for NMDS analysis in PAST 4.12b