Fossil abalone of Europe and their relationships with modern Haliotis (Haliotidae, Gastropoda): A multivariate analysis

Morphometrics of a large dataset of 153 fossil and 226 Recent specimens of abalone (genus Haliotis). All fossil shells are from Europe and range Oligocene-Pleistocene. Recent shells are from the Mediterranean, the eastern Atlantic and the Red Sea. Measures include shell length (L), shell length from apex to L midline (l1), shell width (W), shell width from apex to W midline (w1), shell height (H) and number of tremata, separating total number (NT) from open tremata (OT)., We collected a quantitative dataset based on 153 fossil and 226 Recent specimens of abalone (genus Haliotis), for a total number of 379 meaured shells (not casts, nor molds). Measures were collected by one of the authors (MF) either directly on specimens, or from images in the literature. The studied material is housed in public institutions or in private collections.
Extant taxa included in the dataset are H. tuberculata tuberculata Linnaeus, 1758, H. t. coccinea Reeve, 1846, H. t. fernandesi Owen and Afonso, 2012, H. stomatiaeformis Reeve, 1846, H. tuberculata “Dakar”, H. geigeri Owen, 2014, H. pustulata Reeve, 1846 and H. marmorata Linnaeus, 1758. Fossil taxa are H. benoisti Cossmann, 1896, H. volhynica Eichwald, 1829, H. lamellosoides Sacco, 1897, H. bertinii Forli et al., 2003, H. plioetrusca sp. nov., H. stalennuyi Owen and Berschauer, 2017, H. ovata Michelotti, 1847, H. monilifera Michelotti, 1847 and H. torrei Ruggieri, 1990.
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[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4b8gthtnp](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4b8gthtnp)

Morphometrics of a large dataset of 153 fossil and 226 Recent specimens of abalone (genus *Haliotis*) used in the paper \"Fossil abalone of Europe and their relationships with modern Haliotis (Haliotidae, Gastropoda): a multivariate analysis\". All fossil shells are from Europe and range Early Miocene-Pleistocene. Recent shells are from the Mediterranean, the eastern Atlantic and the Red Sea.

## Description of the data and file structure

The dataset includes data on taxonomy, repository, catalogue number, age, locality of provenance and reference (if published) on a total of 379 shells (not casts, not moulds). Measures (in mm) include shell length (L), shell length from apex to L midline (l1), shell width (W), shell width from apex to W midline (w1), shell height (H). Additional meas...