Micro-computed tomography data supporting the manuscript: Fossil evidence for vampire squid inhabiting oxygen-depleted ocean zones since at least the Oligocene

Summary
This
data record provides details of the data supporting the claims of the related
manuscript: “Fossil evidence for vampire squid inhabiting oxygen-depleted ocean
zones since at least the Oligocene”.
The
related study documents a first record of a post-Mesozoic vampire squid from
the Oligocene of the Central Paratethys represented by a vampyromorph gladius.

Type of data:
3D Micro-computed tomography (μ-CT) image
Subject of
data: Necroteuthis (holotype housed
in the Hungarian Natural History Museum under item: No. M59/4672)
Sample size:
1

Data
access
The 2 data
files shared openly with this data record are in .vgl and .vol formats. These
are proprietary software formats from the Volume Graphics software (https://www.volumegraphics.com/). The
version of Volume Graphics used in the related study was VG Studio Max 2.2.

Corresponding author for this study

Martin Košťák, Institute of
Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6,
Prague, 128 43, Czech Republic; e-mails: [e-mail]