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Table 3 Cranial and mandibular Procrustes distances between age classes and species

From: Growth trajectories in the cave bear and its extant relatives: an examination of ontogenetic patterns in phylogeny

  

U. americanus

U. arctos

U. maritimus

U. spelaeus

U. arctos

  

adult

adult

adult

adult

juvenile

(a) Procrustes shape variation of the cranium

      

U. arctos

adult

0.0391 (<.0001)

    

U. maritimus

adult

0.0528 (<.0001)

0.0597 (<.0001)

   

U. spelaeus

adult

0.0785 (<.0001)

0.0657 (<.0001)

0.086 (<.0001)

  

U. arctos

juvenile

0.1068 (<.0001)

0.1051 (<.0001)

0.1328 (<.0001)

0.1451 (<.0001)

 

U. spelaeus

juvenile

0.0779 (0.0106)

0.0682 (0.0685)

0.1037 (0.0003)

0.0777 (0.009)

0.091 (0.041)

(b) Nonallometric shape variation of the cranium

      

U. arctos

adult

0.0415 (<.0001)

    

U. maritimus

adult

0.0494 (<.0001)

0.0597 (<.0001)

   

U. spelaeus

adult

0.0554 (<.0001)

0.0473 (<.0001)

0.078 (<.0001)

  

U. arctos

juvenile

0.064 (<.0001)

0.0426 (<.0001)

0.0798(<.0001)

0.0271 (0.0001)

 

U. spelaeus

juvenile

0.0789 (<.0001)

0.0734 (0.0249)

0.1015 (0.0001)

0.0439 (0.0916)

0.0626 (0.2624)

(a) Procrustes shape variation of the mandible

      

U. arctos

adult

0.0301 (<.0001)

    

U. maritimus

adult

0.0461 (<.0001)

0.0411 (<.0001)

   

U. spelaeus

adult

0.0523 (<.0001)

0.0565 (<.0001)

0.0784 (<.0001)

  

U. arctos

juvenile

0.1109 (<.0001)

0.1003 (<.0001)

0.1179 (<.0001)

0.1335 (<.0001)

 

U. spelaeus

juvenile

0.1001 (0.0002)

0.0949 (<.0001)

0.1218 (<.0001)

0.1002 (<.0001)

0.0741 (0.0183)

(b) Nonallometric shape variation of the mandible

      

U. arctos

adult

0.0417 (<.0001)

    

U. maritimus

adult

0.0504 (<.0001)

0.0416 (<.0001)

   

U. spelaeus

adult

0.0517 (<.0001)

0.0442 (<.0001)

0.0733 (<.0001)

  

U. arctos

juvenile

0.0659 (<.0001)

0.0382 (<.0001)

0.0666 (<.0001)

0.0371 (0.0025)

 

U. spelaeus

juvenile

0.081 (0.0002)

0.077 (<.0001)

0.1046 (<.0001)

0.0418 (0.1602)

0.0685 (0.0849)

  1. Procrustes distances for non-size corrected and size corrected variation is given. Significance values are given in brackets and significant results are in bold.