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This hypothesis focuses on tyrannosaurids, in the hop of eliciting<br />

morphologicalIy important charaderistics not strictly uncovered by PCA. All<br />

specimens are examined and desaibed, but mainly in explicative wmparison<br />

with MT III of tyrannosaurids.<br />

2) Ordination of variance and covariance wmponents by PCA quantitatively<br />

address a fundamental hypothesis:<br />

Hb: Metatarsi classified as arctometatarsalian (Holtz l994a, b) have a<br />

significantly greater degree of proximal MT III wnstnction than do those of other<br />

theropods.<br />

Hypothesis b denotes that the arctometatarsus is proximaliy narrower relative<br />

to overall length than are alternate morphologies. If this hypothesis is<br />

corroborated, arctometatarsalians will cluster together on bivariate plots of major<br />

principal wrnponents. Non-arctometatarsalian specimens sharing homogeneous<br />

morphologies will cluster separately from the arctometatarsalian group.<br />

MATERIALS AND METHODS<br />

Matenals<br />

Twenty-three saurischian third metatarsals (Table 2.1, Figures 2.1 -2.4),<br />

isolated and from complete metatpodia, were chosen for description and<br />

Principal Components Analysis. Because the analysis tested for correlations<br />

between proximal wnsttïction versus overall length, only complete specimens<br />

(physical or from figures) were deemed suitable. Specimens from the groups<br />

introduced in the phylogeny in Chapter 1 were included, without presuppositions

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