Carnivora Fossil and Pylogenetic Empirical Data

The folder “empirical_data” contains the empirical data used for estimating age-dependent extinction processes.
The folder “fossil_ Pires_et_al_2015” stores fossil data of Carnivora from the Northern Hemisphere compiled and cleansed by Pires et al. (2015). Inside the folder, “all_carnivora_SpeciesList.txt” provides a species list with extinct or extant status. The file “all_carnivora.py” is a ready for PyRate input file of the fossil data set, for more information please refer to PyRate help literature provided at https://github.com/dsilvestro/PyRate/wiki. The files “all_carnivora_combined_10_files.log” and “all_carnivora_Neogene_combined_10_files.log” are the outputs from the PyRate runs of the 10 replicated data sets for the entire fossil data set and the data set for the fossils found during the Neogene (see Fig2 for a schematic workflow).
The folder “phylogenetic_Nyakatura_Bininda-Emonds_2012” stores the dated phylogeny of 286 species extant carnivores, with crown age at about 65 Ma build by Nyakatura and Bininda-Emonds (2012)
References
- Pires M.M., Silvestro D., Quental T.B. 2015. Continental faunal exchange and the asymmetrical radiation of carnivores. Proc. R. Soc. Biol. Sci. Ser. B 282.
- Nyakatura K., Bininda-Emonds O.R.P. 2012. Updating the evolutionary history of carnivora (mammalia): A new species-level supertree complete with divergence time estimates. Bmc Biol 10.