Functional ecological convergence between the thylacine and small prey-focused canids

Table 2 Species found to be maximally convergent with the thylacine

Species	Cranium				Face				Neurocranium
Species	C1	p	θ	p	C1	p	θ	p	C1	p	θ	p
Ch. brachyurus	0.507	0.001	44.4°	0.006	0.567	0.008	36.2°	0.004	0.271	0.062	80.7°	0.073
Lu. adustus	0.537	0.002	35.4°	0.001	0.639	0.004	37.6°	0.009	0.196	0.143	116.4°	0.201
Lu. mesomelas	0.524	0.001	46.0°	0.006	0.625	0.005	39.6°	0.015	0.076	0.420	114.6°	0.192
Ly. gymnocercus	0.417	0.006	51.7°	0.005	0.561	0.013	37.1°	0.012	0.014	0.694	128.1°	0.282
Ca. latrans	0.452	0.003	41.4°	0.001	0.305	0.127	42.6°	0.020	0.384	0.015	107.8°	0.171
Ly. culpaeus	0.489	0.004	38.1°	0.003	0.376	0.057	38.4°	0.008	0.515	0.004	96.4°	0.141
Vu. vulpes	0.333	0.023	49.3°	0.006	0.356	0.076	33.5°	0.004	0.189	0.166	125.5°	0.237
Ca. lupus	0.201	0.139	43.7°	0.004	0.236	0.220	51.3°	0.032	0.318	0.043	72.1°	0.051
Dingo	0.182	0.144	50.0°	0.009	0.305	0.114	47.2°	0.020	0.271	0.082	84.8°	0.091

Species found to be significantly convergent with the thylacine across both phenotypic convergence tests (C1 and search.conv) across the total cranial dataset and the facial or neurocranial patch dataset. Three species (Ca. latrans, Ly. culpaeus, and Vu. vulpes) fail to meet the ad hoc analysis requirements by a single test, but are included here for comparison, along with the commonly-cited ‘convergent’ wolf/dog species complex (represented by Ca. lupus and the dingo). C1 values are the scaled phenotypic distances closed between the lineages, θ are the angles between the multivariate phenotypic vectors of the lineages. Bold values indicates significance, adjusted for multiple tests by Benjamini–Hochberg FDR correction, α = 0.10

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