Data from: The remarkable convergence of skull shape in crocodilians and toothed whales ...
The striking resemblance of long-snouted aquatic mammals and reptiles has long been considered an example of morphological convergence, yet the true cause of this similarity remains untested. We addressed this deficit through three-dimensional morphometric analysis of the full diversity of crocodili...
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ftdatacite:10.5061/dryad.8jt10 2024-02-04T10:04:59+01:00 Data from: The remarkable convergence of skull shape in crocodilians and toothed whales ... McCurry, Matthew R. Evans, Alistair R. Fitzgerald, Erich M.G. Adams, Justin W. Clausen, Philip D. McHenry, Colin R. Fitzgerald, Erich M. G. 2017 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8jt10 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.8jt10 en eng Dryad https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2348 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 Rostra Odontoceti ecomorphology Crocodilia Crania feeding Dataset dataset 2017 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8jt1010.1098/rspb.2016.2348 2024-01-05T01:14:15Z The striking resemblance of long-snouted aquatic mammals and reptiles has long been considered an example of morphological convergence, yet the true cause of this similarity remains untested. We addressed this deficit through three-dimensional morphometric analysis of the full diversity of crocodilian and toothed whale (Odontoceti) skull shapes. Our focus on biomechanically important aspects of shape allowed us to overcome difficulties involved in comparing mammals and reptiles, which have fundamental differences in the number and position of skull bones. We examined whether diet, habitat and prey size correlated with skull shape using phylogenetically informed statistical procedures. Crocodilians and toothed whales have a similar range of skull shapes, varying from extremely short and broad to extremely elongate. This spectrum of shapes represented more of the total variation in our dataset than between phylogenetic groups. The most elongate species (river dolphins and gharials) are extremely convergent in ... : Landmark Data.pts files for crania and mandibles. ... Dataset toothed whale toothed whales DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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The striking resemblance of long-snouted aquatic mammals and reptiles has long been considered an example of morphological convergence, yet the true cause of this similarity remains untested. We addressed this deficit through three-dimensional morphometric analysis of the full diversity of crocodilian and toothed whale (Odontoceti) skull shapes. Our focus on biomechanically important aspects of shape allowed us to overcome difficulties involved in comparing mammals and reptiles, which have fundamental differences in the number and position of skull bones. We examined whether diet, habitat and prey size correlated with skull shape using phylogenetically informed statistical procedures. Crocodilians and toothed whales have a similar range of skull shapes, varying from extremely short and broad to extremely elongate. This spectrum of shapes represented more of the total variation in our dataset than between phylogenetic groups. The most elongate species (river dolphins and gharials) are extremely convergent in ... : Landmark Data.pts files for crania and mandibles. ... |
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Data from: The remarkable convergence of skull shape in crocodilians and toothed whales ... |
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