Dietary diversity and evolution of the earliest flying vertebrates revealed by dental microwear texture analysis

Supporting data for: Bestwick et al. (accepted) ‘Dietary diversity and evolution of the earliest true flying vertebrates revealed by dental microwear texture analysis’. Nature Communications.

Data include .xlsx files of:

• Raw 3D microwear texture data for all extant reptiles and bats and for all pterosaurs included in the study
• Dietary breakdowns of extant reptiles and bats used in analyses
• Results of microwear texture differences between bat dietary guilds
• ISO texture parameter definitions
• Dietary correlation results between dietary component and PC 1 and 2 values
• Estimated ancestral PC 1 and 2 values for each node from the three phylogenies used in the ancestral pterosaur dietary state reconstructions.

Also includes example R code used in the pterosaur dietary evolution reconstructions.