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Data and code used for the analysis of the manuscript Dynamics of a free-flowing benthic invertebrate metacommunity. Data contain taxa, environmental and spatial variables for each sampling method and season, respectively. Species data where generated using a DNA metbarcoding approach and a standard assessment. Spatial variables where genrated using AEMs.

Data and code used for the analysis of the manuscript Dynamics of a free-flowing benthic invertebrate metacommunity. Data contain taxa, environmental and spatial variables for each sampling method and season, respectively. Species data where generated using a DNA metbarcoding approach and a standard assessment. Spatial variables where genrated using AEMs.

Here we present thermochronology data from sedimentary rock samples of late Cretaceous to Paleogene age with unusually high thermal maturities from eastern North Greenland and western Svalbard. The data are interpreted and discussed in the article "Shallow Thermal Anomalies and their Role in the Breakup Evolution along the Conjugate Margins of the Fram Strait (Svalbard and eastern North Greenland), Indicated by Low-temperature Thermochronology", submitted to the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. The data include apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He analyses (table S2) and apatite fission track analyses (dataset S1). We used the thermochronology data to derive time-temperature histories. In the document "Supporting Information", we provide the analytical protocols (Text S1-3, S5), data visualization and assessment for influences and relationships (Figures S2, S3, S4), modelling strategy, parameters and results (Text S4, Figure S5, Table S3), and thin section analyses of the host rock and associated quartz veins (Figures S6-9, Table S4-5). It also contains a summary of the analysed samples, their sampling locations and the resulting AFT and AHe ages (Table S1).

Here we present thermochronology data from sedimentary rock samples of late Cretaceous to Paleogene age with unusually high thermal maturities from eastern North Greenland and western Svalbard. The data are interpreted and discussed in the article "Shallow Thermal Anomalies and their Role in the Breakup Evolution along the Conjugate Margins of the Fram Strait (Svalbard and eastern North Greenland), Indicated by Low-temperature Thermochronology", submitted to the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. The data include apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He analyses (table S2) and apatite fission track analyses (dataset S1). We used the thermochronology data to derive time-temperature histories. In the document "Supporting Information", we provide the analytical protocols (Text S1-3, S5), data visualization and assessment for influences and relationships (Figures S2, S3, S4), modelling strategy, parameters and results (Text S4, Figure S5, Table S3), and thin section analyses of the host rock and associated quartz veins (Figures S6-9, Table S4-5). It also contains a summary of the analysed samples, their sampling locations and the resulting AFT and AHe ages (Table S1).

Supplementary Material 1.

Supplementary Material 1.

The geologically-complex Indo-Australian-Melanesian archipelago (IAMA) hosts extraordinarily high levels of species richness and endemism and has long served as a natural laboratory for studying biogeography and evolution. Nonetheless, its geological history and the provenance and evolution of its biodiversity remain poorly understood. Here, we provide a geological scenario for the IAMA informed by a time-calibrated molecular phylogeny of 1,006 species of Trigonopterus weevils—an exceptionally diverse radiation of regionally-endemic flightless beetles. Moreover, we performed a statistical biogeographic analysis and examined timing and patterns in the accumulation of lineages residing in a priori-defined geographic units comprising the IAMA. We estimate that Trigonopterus originated in Australia during the early Paleogene. Subsequent rapid diversification in the area of the present-day Papuan Peninsula suggests the presence of proto-Papuan islands by the middle Eocene; the New Guinea North Coast Ranges were colonized in the late Eocene, followed by the New Guinea Highlands and the Bird´s Head Peninsula. We inferred the presence of terrestrial habitat in the North Moluccas and Sulawesi in the late Oligocene and the subsequent rapid colonization of Sundaland and the Lesser Sunda Islands. New Caledonia and Samoa were colonized from the Papuan Peninsula, and their faunas also diverged in the late Oligocene. These biota-informed time estimates are compatible with geological data from the region and shed new light on IAMA paleogeography, even where geological evidence has been lost to erosion. Beetle evolution thus appears to have closely tracked the geological evolution of the IAMA, revealing a uniquely well-resolved view of regional biogeography.

The Cambrian (Miaolingian; Wuliuan) Spence Shale Lagerstätte of northern Utah and southern Idaho is one of the most diverse Burgess Shale-type deposits of Laurentia. It yields a diverse fauna consisting of abundant biomineralized and locally abundant soft-bodied fossils, along a range of environments from shallow water carbonates to deep shelf dark shales. Panarthropods are the dominant component throughout the deposit, both in time and space, but while the trilobites and agnostoids are abundant, most of the soft-bodied taxa are only known from very few specimens. Additionally, the knowledge of the soft-bodied panarthropods is currently largely limited to locations in the Wellsville Mountains of northeastern Utah. This contribution describes 21 new soft-bodied panarthropods from six locations, including the first occurrences of soft-bodied panarthropods in the High-Creek, Smithfield Creek, Spence Gulch, and Two-Mile Canyon localities. Additionally, we report the presence of bradoriids, Branchiocaris pretiosa, Perspicaris? dilatus, Naraoia? sp., Thelxiope cf. T. palaeothalassia, and Tuzoia guntheri for the first time from the Spence Shale Lagerstätte, the first occurrence reported outside of the Burgess Shale for Thelxiope cf. T. palaeothalassia and the first Wuliuan occurrence of Tuzoia guntheri. We also report on a new hurdiid carapace element and additional specimens of Buccaspinea cooperi?, Dioxycaris argenta, Hurdia sp., and Tuzoia retifera. This new material improves our understanding of the panarthropod fauna of the Spence Shale Lagerstätte and substantially increases our understanding of the distribution of the described taxa in time and space.