Microbial oxidation and carbonate cementation led to three-dimensional preservation of ichthyosaur bones

Description

This dataset contains the final and editable figures, tables, spreadsheet datasets, and raw image data used in the final publication and supplementary information of 'Microbial oxidation and carbonate cementation led to three-dimensional preservation of ichthyosaur bones' by Jian et al. (2026) in Communications Earth & Environment. CT Models contains .tif files of the 3D CT-segmented bones within concretion used in Figure 1. The raw CT scan files and 3D model files cannot be shared due to privacy concerns. Figures SVG Versions contains .svg format of main Figures 1 to 4 and Supplementary Information Figures 1 to 8. Main Figures and Supplementary Figures - Final Versions contains .pdf and .tif versions of main Figures 1 to 5 and .pdf and .png versions of and Supplementary Information Figures 1 to 8. Rock Eval and Stable Isotopes Data contains Excel spreadsheets of the Tables used in the main manuscript and the spreadsheets 'Rock Eval and Isotopes Dataset.xlsx' used to generate scatter chart figures. SEM Images and EDS Data contains .tif images of SEM micrographs used in the main manuscript and EDS reports of each respective site in .docx format. Specimen Photos contains the .png and .jpg images of the fossil specimen and each sampled component. Thin Section Micrographs contains .jpg format images of petrographic micrographs of bone and concretion sample thin sections.

Institutions

• Curtin University

  Western Australia, Perth
• Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

  Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel

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Funders

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

  Bonn

  Grant ID: SCHW554/29
• Australian Research Council

  Canberra

  Grant ID: FL210100103

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