Data from "Ovalicaris wulforum sp. nov., a new thylacocephalan from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Archipelago, and a re-examination of Dollocaris michelorum"

Description This repository contains two folders: the Data folder, which includes the shield measurements files (.csv) for each thylacocephalan specimens measured. The name of the files corresponds to the repository number of the specimen. The measurement were taken directly from the digital pictures with ImageJ2. The script folder, which includes two files: the functions.R file, which contains all functions necessary to clean the data; (2) the shield-measurements.R file, which is the script to clean the data and to produce the summary table of the descriptive statistics. The table was produced with the R package gtsummary. Measurement abbreviations. Aad – anterodorsal angle; Aav – anteroventral angle; Apd – posterodorsal angle; Apv – posteroventral angle; Ha – anterior height; Hmax – maximal height; Hp – posterior height; Lr – rostrum length; Ls – total shield length; Lw – shield length without the rostrum. Institutional abbreviations. JM SOS – Jura Museum, Eichstätt, Germany; SMNS – Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany.