Dataset and supplementary material to Candela, Guo & Harper "Diversification and disparity in a major Palaeozoic clade of Brachiopoda: the rise and fall of the Plectambonitoidea."

The content of the files is as follows: Files with prefix 'Dataset': Charaters list.doc: describes the characters' states for each genus. Classification.csv: The familial and subfamilial assignments of genera. Detailed_revision_actions.xlsx: The table showing the revisions made. The revised data are saved in Revised_data.csv. GTS2020.Rdata: The geological time scale used in this study. Occurrences_of_all_brachiopods.csv: The raw PBDB data of all brachiopods used to evaluate the fossil record of the Plectambonitoidea. Plecta_morpho_matrix.xlsx: The morphological matrix of the Plectambonitoidea. Revised_data_final.Rdata: The finally analysed dataset of the Plectambonitoidea. Revised_dataset.csv: The revised dataset of the Plectambonitoidea (extracted from Detailed_revision_actions.xlsx). Ages are not updated. The finally analysed dataset is Revised_data_final.Rdata. Strophomenida-12-09-2024.csv: The raw dataset of the Order Strophomenida. Files with prefix'PyRate_file': Plectambonitoids.py: The input file of PyRate analysis. Plectambonitoids.sh: The bash file to run the PyRate analysis. Combine_Plectam.sh: The bash file to combine log files and generate rates. O_D_qshifts.txt: Stage boundaries. Input file of PyRate analysis. Files with prefix'R_script': Functions and R scripts used to perform morphological analysis and plot results. Files with prefix'Result': Plectambonitoids_ltt.txt: Estimated number of lineage through time. Plectambonitoids_se_est.txt: Estimated times of origination and extinction of genera. Plectambonitoids_rate.r: Estimated diversification dynamics generated by PyRate. Figures and Supplementary Figures, with captions for the supplementary files.