Table 1.

Mantel tests, used to analyze correlation between the Euclidean distance matrices of each dataset

	Mesozoic		Lower and Middle Triassic		Upper Triassic		Lower Jurassic		Middle Jurassic–Cretaceous
Datasets	rho	P	rho	P	rho	P	rho	P	rho	P
Whole-body vs. cranial	0.4804	0***	0.1375	0.1982	0.4214	0.0156*	0.7042	0.0016**	0.5403	0.0960
Whole-body vs. postcranial	0.9490	0***	0.6292	0.0010**	0.8752	0***	0.6797	0.0066**	0.9292	0.0018**
Cranial vs. postcranial	0.3515	0***	−0.0410	0.4298	0.2380	0.0680	−0.0066	0.4498	0.2994	0.1812

The distances calculated from the whole-body dataset, the cranial dataset, and the postcranial dataset were compared over the whole of the Mesozoic and also over the four time-bin intervals using Spearman-rank rho values, where P is the probability that two datasets are correlated. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.005; ***P < 0.0005.