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Table 5 Skull measurements used in the morphometric analyses

From: Gazella arabica dareshurii: a remarkable relict population on Farur Island, Iran

 

Factor loadings in each component

Extraction communalities

Description

 

C1

C2

  

DFH

0.696

0.561

0.800

Distance front to horns

DFO

0.825

0.259

0.748

Distance front to orbit

DH

− 0.485

0.667

0.680

Distance between horns pedicles

DOC

0.677

− 0.104

0.470

Distance orbit to condyle (measured parallel to tooth row)

HD1

0.853

− 0.434

0.916

Horn pedicle diameter 1 (medio-lateral)

HD2

0.840

− 0.500

0.955

Horn pedicle diameter 2 (antero-posterior)

HL1 r

0.800

− 0.424

0.820

Horn length, distance between the base of the horn sheath and the horn tip

HTD

0.656

− 0.551

0.734

Horn tip distance

IB

0.721

0.194

0.558

Inter-bullae distance

LF + P1

0.901

0.167

0.841

Length of frontal + parietal

LL

0.767

0.199

0.629

Length of lacrimal (maximum length of facial part)

LP

0.668

0.396

0.602

Length of parietal

MWH

0.692

− 0.600

0.839

Maximum width of horns sheaths

OD

0.676

0.403

0.619

Orbit diameter (parallel to tooth row)

OHB

0.846

− 0.010

0.717

Occipital height, braincase complete

OHO

0.901

0.029

0.812

Occipital height, occiput only (dorsal of foramen magnum)

WAO

0.888

0.271

0.862

Width across orbits (maximum width of frontals)

WB

0.781

0.367

0.745

Width of braincase

WPP

0.839

0.204

0.745

Width across paroccipital processes

Eigenvalues

11.297

2.794

0.748

 

% of Variance

59.456

14.707

0.680

 
  1. Measurements with highest extraction communalities for the respective component are in italics