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Getting geometric. ???. Alces pulmatus (Moose). Madoqua swaynei (Silver dik-dik ). Raphicerus melanotis (Cape Grysbok). Rhyncotragus guentheri (Guenther’s dik-dik ). Highly informative. Shipley, 1999. Mean geometric shape profile of the 121 Procrustes -transformed snout profiles.
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Getting geometric ??? Alcespulmatus (Moose) Madoquaswaynei (Silver dik-dik) Raphicerus melanotis (Cape Grysbok) Rhyncotragus guentheri (Guenther’s dik-dik) Jon Tennant, Imperial College London; Norm MacLeod, Natural History Museum, London
Highly informative Shipley, 1999
Mean geometric shape profile of the 121 Procrustes-transformedsnout profiles.
P=0.0 Grazers: 84% Intermediates: 47.9% Browsers: 48.9% Frugivores: 100% 57.02% “success rate”
Note: These are the axes viewed in 2D space, when really they’re in 200D space
Point along axis Overlay 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 Geometric simplicity of snout profiles has previously been a factor of limited sampling Axis Transition from pointed to blunt?
71.9% correct assignment – not bad, but not great P=2.132E-07
42.14% correct assignment = not brilliant P=4.054E-10
78.57% success rate (57.02% before) Only well-defined browsers and grazers can be successfully delimited with a 78.57% success rate This system breaks down when putative intermediates are incorporated
Shape-based feeding classes have been converged upon by ruminants independent of their body mass Grazers may be a much more specialised or conservative feeding group than previously suggested, compared to browsers
Er, Jon, this is Progressive PALAEONTOLOGY • Snout shape could be a statistically rigorous proxy for determining palaeoecology in extinct ruminants, and possibly other analogous groups.. Hypsilophodon foxii Zalmoxesrobustus Dryosauruslettowvorbecki Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus