This DATSETNAMEreadme.txt file was generated on 2021-02-08 by Natasha S. Vitek GENERAL INFORMATION 1. Title of Dataset: 2. Author Information A. Principal Investigator Contact Information Name: Natasha S. Vitek Institution: Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution Address: 632 Life Sciences, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245 Email: natasha.vitek@stonybrook.edu 3. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date): 2013-2020 4. Geographic location of data collection: Specimens come from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, U.S.A. For more detailed locality information please see additional information about each specimen in their respective museum collections databases. For detailed information on date and location that each specimen was CT-scanned please see records for each specimen on MorphoSource. 5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: This research was supported by NSF grants DGE-1315138, BCS-1440558, BCS-1440742, EAR-0640076, EAR-0719941, DEB-0208281, BCS-1552848. SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION 1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: CC0 2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: link forthcoming, paper in press. 3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: http://www.morphosource.org ; https://github.com/nsvitek/PETM-erinaceomorphs ; https://www.idigbio.org/portal 4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: none 5. Was data derived from another source? no 6. Recommended citation for this dataset: Vitek, N. S., P. E. Morse, D. M. Boyer, S. G. Strait, and J. I. Bloch. [YEAR: likely 2021]. Evaluating the responses of three closely related small mammal lineages to climate change across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Paleobiology VOL:##-##. DATA & FILE OVERVIEW 1. File List: * Supplementary Data: Supplementary-Results.docx: a copy of supplementary tables of statistical results, as well as appendices of specimen numbers used and their media IDs on the data repository MorphoSource * Archival Code: This file is a snapshot of the analytical R code used to generate results from the pseudolandmark configurations and measurements. The code was functional using R 3.6.3 as of 2020. A live version of the code is available on GitHub in the repository 'PETM-erinaceomorphs'. The live code may contain changes or revisions made after manuscript acceptance. * Pseudolandmark Configurations: each of these zipped folders contain (1) raw data of specimen pseudolandmark coordinates in morphologika file format and (2) aligned specimen meshes output by 'PuenteAlignment' auto3dgm code implemented in MATLAB. There is one zipped folder for each species, as follows: * Colpocherus: colpocherus_p_10k_18-03-05_2048 * Macrocranion: macrocranion_p_10k_18-02-09_2048 * Talpavoides: talpavoides_p_10k_18-04-02_2048 2. Relationship between files, if important: You will need the pseudolandmark configurations as input for large parts of the archival code. 3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: Additional specimen data may be found in the collections database of the appropriate institution. Additional measurements taken are still under active study and not included in this repository. Please ask the principal investigator if you have questions or requests regarding the measurement data. 4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? no METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION 1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: Vitek, N. S., P. E. Morse, D. M. Boyer, S. G. Strait, and J. I. Bloch. [YEAR: likely 2021]. Evaluating the responses of three closely related small mammal lineages to climate change across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Paleobiology VOL:##-##. 2. Methods for processing the data: Submitted data were generated from raw data following the methods described in: Vitek, N. S., P. E. Morse, D. M. Boyer, S. G. Strait, and J. I. Bloch. [YEAR: likely 2021]. Evaluating the responses of three closely related small mammal lineages to climate change across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Paleobiology VOL:##-##. 3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: To interpret the data, the software package R (https://www.r-project.org/) is needed. 6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: Please see description of assessment of measurement error in the associated manuscript. 7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: In addition to the authors of the associated manuscript and field workers who assisted in collecting the fossils, J. Bourque, A. Poyer assisted with specimen prep, T. Bown assissted with locality and meter level data, M. Clementz, A. Millhouse, N. Pyenson, K. Rose, L. Vietti, P. Holroyd, R. Hulbert assissted with specimen access and cataloging, A. Wood and T. Gao assisted with some parts of the code, G. Schieffle, J. Thostenson, E. Stanley assisted with CT-scanning, K. Rosenbach assisted with CT-postprocessing and surface generation.