Image stack, Mimics-file, ply-files and character matrices of Phoebodus associated with "The oldest shark face – anatomy of the Devonian elasmobranch Phoebodus"

Phoebodus was recognized as the earliest elasmobranch known from articulated remains, a group which constitutes the majority of modern cartilaginous fish comprising sharks, skates and rays. Its elongate body, the presence of two dorsal fins with fin spines, and the elongate head had already been described. Based on spectacularly well-preserved fossils, we used three-dimensionally preserved skulls to reconstruct the skull morphology, the endocast, and the gill skeleton. These new skeletons from the Famennian of Morocco (c. 367 Ma) permit a much-improved reconstruction of the anatomy of Phoebodus. The new materials comprise the oldest elasmobranch specimens preserving the complete head in three dimensions. Here, we provide the cropped tif-stack, segmented data, ply-files of the main cartilages of the head region and the endocast of the brain cavity, as well as two character matrices used for phylogenetic analyses.