1c76e443-da02-4bc4-a041-0f79adc016be English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-19T15:25:27 UK GEMINI 2.3 Morphological and morphometric data on the axial skeletons of vertebrates from museum specimens 2024-01-15 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/1c76e443-da02-4bc4-a041-0f79adc016be 10.5285/1c76e443-da02-4bc4-a041-0f79adc016be doi: Criswell, K.E., Head, J.J. (2024). Morphological and morphometric data on the axial skeletons of vertebrates from museum specimens. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/1c76e443-da02-4bc4-a041-0f79adc016be Computed tomography (CT) scans of 212 museum specimens, including mostly cartilaginous and bony fishes as well as several reptiles and amphibians, were obtained to quantitatively study vertebral column morphology and regionalisation. The specimens are housed in the University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology or the Natural History Museum in London (specimen identification numbers can be found in the supporting documentation). These data consist of 1) series of tiff images that can be imported into CT segmenting software to reconstruct their shape in three dimensions; 2) STL files of each vertebra for a subset of the specimens scanned; 3) 3D landmark coordinates or measurements for each vertebra for a subset of taxa scanned; 4) tables of results from regionalisation analyses, and 5) photographs of eight fossil fish specimens Supplemental files include details of the data collection procedures, specimen identification numbers and updated taxonomy, and CT scanning parameters for all scans. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/1c76e443-da02-4bc4-a041-0f79adc016be Criswell, K.E. University of Cambridge Kc518@cam.ac.uk pointOfContact Criswell, K.E. University of Cambridge Kc518@cam.ac.uk author Head, J.J. University of Cambridge Jjh71@cam.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian University of Cambridge Kc518@cam.ac.uk owner morphology fish anatomy GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Evolutionary ecology axial regionalisation vertebral column otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Criswell, K.E., Head, J.J. (2024). Morphological and morphometric data on the axial skeletons of vertebrates from museum specimens. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/1c76e443-da02-4bc4-a041-0f79adc016be English utf8 biota 2019-02-01 2023-06-30 Comma-separated values (CSV) Txt stl tiff NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/1c76e443-da02-4bc4-a041-0f79adc016be Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/1c76e443-da02-4bc4-a041-0f79adc016be.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Computed tomography scans of museum specimens were obtained at the Cambridge Biotomography Centre using a Nikon XTEK H 225 ST MicroCT scanner. Post-processing to optimise CT reconstructions and minimise scan artefacts was performed in Nikon’s CT-Pro program, and scan reslicing was performed using VG STUDIOMAX (Volume Graphics). Segmentation of CT scans resulting STL files was performed in either Mimics (Materialise) or VG STUDIOMAX (Volume Graphics). Landmark coordinates of vertebrae were plotted using Stratovan Checkpoint. Regionalisation analyses were conducted in the R software environment, with method details described in the supporting documentation for the data