Extant-proxy-measurement-data.csv

Raw data for total length proxy measurements taken from extant specimens at Natural History Museum London (NHMUK).

Specimen number - registered accession number of specimen in holding institution
Family - family name
Genus - genus name
Species - species name
TL (mm) - total length (in millimetres)
CBL (mm) - condylobasal length (in millimetres)
BIZYG (mm) - bizygomatic width (in millimetres)
EXOC (mm) - exoccipital width (in millimetre
OCB (mm) - occipital condyle breadth (in millimetres)
AON (mm) - distance between antorbital notches (in millimetres)
NFW (mm) - narial fossa width (in millimetres)
BNW (mm) - binasal width (width across the two nasal bones) (in millimetres)
AAFW (mm) - width of the articular facets of the atlas vertebra (in millimetres)
HL (mm) - humerus length (in millimetres)
Notes - additional information about species where necessary

Abbreviations

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Resources

Travis Park; Gustavo Burin; Graham J Slater; Natalie Cooper (2022). Extant-proxy-measurement-data.csv (from Data from the "Back to the water" project) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum. https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/data-from-the-back-to-the-water-project-funded-by-the-leverhulme-trust/resource/e9620cd4-6971-4eb7-8963-e9846c0908b2

Retrieved: 10:36 02 Sep 2026 (UTC)

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