6423ac40-aded-560c-e054-002128a47908 English nonGeographicDataset non geographic dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-04-14 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607248 Tomographic data of tubular fossils from the Ediacaran Weng'an Doushantuo biota (NERC grant NE/J018325/1) 2015-07-06 publication http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607248 The data are from X-ray tomographic analyses of tubular fossils. All scans were carried out using Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Tomographic Microscopy (SRXTM) except for specimen SMNH X 5324 which was also analysed using Ptychographic X-ray Computed Tomography (PXCT). The methods are described in the paper. The data consist of a stacked series of .tif files that represent maps of X-ray attenuation. The individual slices can be viewed with standard graphics software. The datasets 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. The voxel size, which is needed for scale calculations, varies between datasets and is given below. Some datasets consist of two 'blocks' of data, with slices named [specimen name]_B1 and [specimen name]_B2. These are placed in the same folder and follow on directly from one another. They can be opened together as a single dataset. The files relate to the following publication: Cunningham, J. A., Vargas, K., Liu, P., Belivanova, V., Marone, F., Martinez-Perez, C., Guizar-Sicairos, M., Holler, M., Bengtson, S. & Donoghue, P. C. J. 2015. Critical appraisal of tubular putative eumetazoans from the Ediacaran Weng'an Doushantuo biota. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B: Biological Sciences. Dr John Cunningham University of Bristol Earth Sciences Wills Memorial Building Bristol BS8 1RJ not available originator Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available pointOfContact notApplicable https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/6423ac40-aded-560c-e054-002128a47908.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Tomography Fossils BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 revision NGDC Deposited Data dataCentre NERC_DDC otherRestrictions Access via University of Bristol and available under Non-Commercial Government License for public sector information. otherRestrictions The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. 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English geoscientificInformation 2012-09 2017-02 Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/13g2svxco0zml1lmzde60hfqlf WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download information http://data.bris.ac.uk/datasets/tar/13g2svxco0zml1lmzde60hfqlf.zip WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download download https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1169 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) information nonGeographicDataset non geographic dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false For methodology see https://data.bris.ac.uk/datasets/13g2svxco0zml1lmzde60hfqlf/Cunningham_et_al_Tubular_Fossils_PRSB_2015/readme.txt