Community hydrodynamics created ecological opportunity in Ediacaran shallow marine ecosystems

This dataset consists of original data from the following paper: Gutarra, S., Mitchell, E.G., Surprenant, R.L., Droser, M.L., Dunn, F.S., Gibson, B.M., Racicot, R.A., Darroch, S.A.F. and Rahman, I.A. In press. Community hydrodynamics created ecological opportunity in Ediacaran shallow marine ecosystems. PNAS Nexus, pgaf346. doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf346 The dataset comprises two ZIP files: Gutarra_et_al_Simulated_Communities.zip. This file includes spreadsheets (.xlsx) with details of the virtual communities simulated based on data on the size, density, spatial distribution, and orientation of fossils from the following Ediacaran surfaces: the DS surface from the Central Urals, Russia; the KS surface from Winter Coast of the White Sea, Russia; the FUN5 surface from the Mount Scott Range, Flinders Ranges, South Australia; and the bedding planes TB-BRW and LV-FUN from Nilpena Ediacara National Park, South Australia. These virtual communities were simulated using the package spatstat in R. Gutarra_et_al_CFD_Simulations.zip. This file includes three-dimensional digital models (.stp) of the simulated communities and results files (.mph) from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of water flow using these models. Digital models were built in Rhinoceros and CFD simulations were performed in COMSOL Multiphysics. The code used for spatial ecological modelling is available at GitHub: https://github.com/egmitchell/WhiteSeaSpatialSimulations