Table 4 Ancestral state reconstruction of adult female body mass (kg) based on a dataset of 1,679 eutherian mammal species means, under Brownian Motion (BM; maximum likelihood), Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU; maximum likelihood), Early Burst (EB; maximum likelihood), Eastman et al 's (2011) heterogenous multi-rate (maximum posterior probability) and stable (maximum posterior probability) models
Clade | Reconstructed body mass (kg) | Fossil estimates (kg) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BM | OU | EB | Eastman | Stable | ||
0.015-0.017 (Juramaia) | ||||||
Eutheria | 1.24 | 1.23 | 1.14 | 0.97 | 0.33 | 0.02-0.025 (Eomaia) |
Shrew-sized (Prokennalestes) | ||||||
Euarchontoglires | 0.72 | 0.43 | 0.73 | 0.60 | 0.34 | |
0.0003 (Tribosphenomys) | ||||||
Rodentia | 0.37 | 0.26 | 0.39 | 0.34 | 0.24 | |
0.0014 (Microparamys) | ||||||
Lagomorpha | 0.53 | 0.36 | 0.56 | 0.50 | 0.37 | 0.1-0.2 (Lagomorpha indet.) |
Primates | 0.76 | 0.49 | 0.77 | 0.64 | 0.45 | 0.1 (Purgatorius) |
Scandentia | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.27 | 0.25 | 0.25 | |
Laurasiatheria | 1.13 | 0.61 | 1.10 | 0.60 | 0.25 | |
2.2-3.9 (Diacodexeidae) | ||||||
Cetartiodactyla | 23.6 | 80.29 | 17.60 | 18.34 | 79.22 | 2.6-3.9 (Homacodontidae) |
6.6-9.6 (Laredochoerus) | ||||||
158.2 (Hyrachyus) | ||||||
Perissodactyla | 86.5 | 152.51 | 57.17 | 72.75 | 273.76 | |
740.1 (Amynodon) | ||||||
0.15-10 (Viveravidae) | ||||||
Carnivora | 6.34 | 8.77 | 5.45 | 5.23 | 15.20 | |
1-10 (Miacidae) | ||||||
Pholidota | 4.61 | 5.54 | 4.48 | 4.47 | 4.28 | |
Chiroptera | 0.08 | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.012-0.015 (Icaronycteris) |
Eulipotyphla | 0.58 | 0.41 | 0.62 | 0.36 | 0.22 | 0.011 (Paranyctoides) |
Xenarthra | 3.04 | 3.13 | 2.60 | 2.8 | 2.15 | |
Pilosa | 4.17 | 3.94 | 3.87 | 2.80 | 4.49 | |
Cingulata | 3.30 | 3.36 | 3.12 | 3.23 | 2.40 | |
Afrotheria | 1.73 | 8.95 | 1.50 | 1.51 | 0.36 | |
Afrosoricida | 0.72 | 0.17 | 0.77 | 0.65 | 0.15 | |
Macroscelidea | 0.30 | 0.44 | 0.34 | 0.65 | 0.17 | |
Hyracoidea | 3.40 | 9.14 | 3.38 | 3.38 | 3.56 | >4 (Heterohyrax) |
Proboscidea | 1,478.15 | 949.76 | 1039.24 | 1,460.62 | 2,928.50 | >2,000 (Palaeomastodon) |
Sirenia | 90.33 | 204.84 | 53.41 | 87.24 | 341.12 | 488.1 (Halitherium) |