Dietary diversity and evolution of the earliest flying vertebrates revealed by dental microwear texture analysis

Supporting data for: Bestwick et al. (accepted) ‘Dietary diversity and evolution of the earliest true flying vertebrates revealed by dental microwear texture analysis’. Nature Communications.

Data include .xlsx files of:

Raw 3D microwear texture data for all extant reptiles and bats and for all pterosaurs included in the study

Dietary breakdowns of extant reptiles and bats used in analyses

Results of microwear texture differences between bat dietary guilds

ISO texture parameter definitions

Dietary correlation results between dietary component and PC 1 and 2 values

Estimated ancestral PC 1 and 2 values for each node from the three phylogenies used in the ancestral pterosaur dietary state reconstructions.

Also includes example R code used in the pterosaur dietary evolution reconstructions.