Fig. 5 in The completeness of the fossil record of plesiosaurs, marine reptiles from the Mesozoic
Fig. 5. Box-and-whisker plots showing the distribution of CCM2 and SCM2 data for several major clades of Mesozoic tetrapods. A. Comparison of SCM2 and CCM2 data for plesiosaurs. B. Comparison of CCM2 data for plesiosaurs, sauropodomorphs (from Mannion and Upchurch 2010), birds (from Brocklehurst et al. 2012), and pterosaurs (from Dean et al. 2016). C. Comparison of SCM2 data for plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs (from Cleary et al. 2015), and sauropodomorphs (from Mannion and Upchurch 2010). All silhouettes are from phylopic.org, and are credited to Adam Stuart Smith (Plesiosaurus), Scott Hartman (Brachiosaurus), T. Michael Keesey (Archaeopteryx), and Gareth Monger (Pterodactylus, Ichthyosaurus). Abbreviations: CCM, character completeness metric; SCM, skeletal completeness metric (for detailed explanation of terms see Completeness metrics in Methods section).
ShareScore
40/100
Overall dataset sharing score
Score breakdown
These five areas show where the dataset supports — or may limit — practical reuse.
- Stewardship
- 8
- Harmonization
- 4
- Access
- 20
- Reuse readiness
- 8
- Engagement
- 0