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Table 1 Linear regression values for forelimb allometry for Theropoda under BM after excluding Oviraptorosauria, Ornithomimosauria, Tyrannosauroidea and Coelophysoidea

From: Assesment and interpretation of negative forelimb allometry in the evolution of non-avian Theropoda

Complete dataset

Reduced dataset

Topology

Intercept

Slope

Slope 95% CI

λ

Intercept

Slope

Slope 95% CI

λ

1

0.026

0.859

(0.797, 0.922)

0.939

0.079

0.840

(0.772, 0.908)

0.892

2

0.011

0.862

(0.800, 0.923)

0.939

0.068

0.840

(0.773, 0.907)

0.877

3

0.035

0.849

(0.787, 0.912)

0.938

0.092

0.831

(0.763, 0.899)

0.878

4

0.019

0.851

(0.789, 0.914

0.936

0.081

0.831

(0.764, 0.898)

0.860

5

0.057

0.848

(0.784, 0.911)

0.937

0.115

0.827

(0.761, 0.893)

0.875

6

0.043

0.849

(0.785, 0.913)

0.936

0.108

0.827

(0.762, 0.892)

0.848

1–6

0.032

0.853

(0.789, 0.917)

0.938

0.091

0.8336

(0.765, 0.900)

0.872

  1. Intercept, Slope and Slope 95% CI are estimations obtained after pooling 1000 dichotomous time-scaled trees generated for the specified topology or topologies. λ is a simple mean of Pagel’s λ estimations on the same regressions