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Figure 3.14. A, Plot of relief index of M 2 of Plesiadapis tricuspidens, Plesiadapis cookei,<br />

and Platychoerops daubrei. Relief index is the natural logarithm of the ratio of the<br />

square root of three dimensional crown area to the square root of two dimensional crown<br />

area. Measurements were generated from digital images of teeth acquired as described in<br />

<strong>Boyer</strong> (in press). The higher the relief index, the more “selenodont” the tooth, and the<br />

more specialized toward leaves the diet is likely to have been. B, Plot of orientation<br />

patch count (OPC) of M 2 of the same three plesiadapid species. A higher OPC<br />

corresponds to a more complex tooth occlusal surface, and a greater reliance on leaves in<br />

the diet (Evans et al., 2007). Boxes encompass 50% of the data. Whiskers encompass the<br />

rest, not counting major outliers. The horizontal line in the box represents the median for<br />

the distribution. ANOVA followed by Tukey’s HSD tests show that these three<br />

plesiadapids have distinctly different degrees of molar relief and complexity.<br />

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