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Chapter 5: Character state reconstructions for the ancestral plesiadapid and evaluation of their phylogenetic implications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 Institutional abbreviations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504 Generic abbreviations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504 Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504 Phylogenetic reconstructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504 Species level cladistic analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504 Character optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 Cladistic analysis of published matrices using higher level taxa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506 Reconstruction of internal carotid artery functionality and skull length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510 Phylogenetic reconstructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510 Species level cladistic analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510 Character optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510 Cladistic analysis of published matrices using higher level taxa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512 Reconstruction of internal carotid artery functionality and skull length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 Discussion and conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524 Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528 Figures with captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541 Chapter 6: Summary and conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547 New crania of plesiadapids and reassessment of cranial stucture. . . . . . . . . . . 547 xvii
Craniodental material of Plesiadapis cookei and its implications for paleobiological distinction from P. tricuspidens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549 The postcranial skeleton of Plesiadapis cookei and evidence for a suspensory, arboreal locomotor repertoire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550 Phylogenetic implications of new observations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552 Overall conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .554 Figures with captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558 xviii
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paleobiological distinction from P. tricuspidens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549<br />
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arboreal locomotor repertoire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550<br />
Phylogenetic implications of new observations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552<br />
Overall conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553<br />
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .554<br />
Figures with captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557<br />
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558<br />
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