3D reconstruction, taphonomic and petrological data resolve "the oldest record of bioturbation” as a body fossil coquina

Christos Psarras, Philip C.J. Donoghue, Russell Garwood, Dmitriy V. Grazhdankin, Luke Parry, Vladimir I. Rogov and Alexander G. Liu

This dataset contain a three dimensional X-Ray microtomographic dataset of fossil specimens of Nenoxites (Khatyspyt Formation of the late Ediacaran Khorbusuonka Group, Siberia, Sakha Republic, Russia), along with a stereolithographic model of a computed tomographic reconstruction, and an Excel table listing localities and lithotypes from which related fossils have been described

The data accompanies the following paper: 3D reconstruction, taphonomic and petrological data resolve ‘‘the oldest record of bioturbation” as a body fossil coquina

The specimen analysed, its catalogue number and the deposited files related to it are as follows:

	File name			Specimen name		Catalogue number 	Files

01	Nenoxites			Nenoxites		X 50382.1		Tomographic data
02	Nenoxites.stl			Nenoxites		X 50382.1		3D Stereolithograph model
	
*Institutional abbreviation: The specimen is housed at the Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge, U.K.

Specimen was scanned using using a Nikon Metrology HMX ST 225 at the Natural History Museum in London, United Kingdom;

Raw tomographic data for the specimen consists of a stacked series of 2D .tif files that represent maps of X-ray attenuation. The individual slices can be viewed with standard graphics software. The dataset can be studied in 3D using tomographic reconstruction software such as Avizo (www.vsg3d.com/), Spiers (www.spiers-software.org/), VG Studio Max (www.volumegraphics.com) etc.

Scan settings for the specimen scanned at Nikon Metrology HMX ST 225 at the Natural History Museum in London

	File name	Specimen name	Cat. number	Energy	Proj'ns		Exposure(ms)	Resolution (um)	Target		Current		Filtration 	Voxel size volume
01	Nenoxites	Nenoxites	X 50382.1	180 KV	3142		708		33.71747838	Tungsten	140 μA		None		33.7 μm