Data from: Accounting for extinction dynamics unifies the geological and biological histories of Indo-Australian Archipelago

Biogeographical reconstructions of the Indo-Australian Archipelago (IAA)
have suggested recent spread across the Sunda and Sahul shelves of
lineages with diverse origins, which appears to be congruent with a
geological history of recent tectonic uplift in the region. However, this
scenario is challenged by new geological evidence suggesting that the
Sunda shelf was never submerged prior to the Pliocene, casting doubt on
the interpretation of recent uplift and the correspondence of evidence
from biogeography and geology. A mismatch between geological and
biogeographical data may occur if analyses ignore the dynamics of extinct
lineages, because this may add uncertainty to timing and origin of clades
in biogeographical reconstructions. We revisit the historical biogeography
of multiple IAA taxa and explicitly allow for the possibility of lineage
extinction. In contrast to models assuming zero extinction, we find that
all of these clades, including plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates,
have a common and widespread geographic origin, and each has spread and
colonized the region much earlier than previously thought. The results for
the eight clades re-examined in this paper suggest that they diversified
and spread during the early Eocene, which helps to unify the geological
and biological histories of IAA.