Table 7. Ocepeia daouiensis, main derived features of the dentition (with presumed rank of apomorphy; * anthropoid-like feature).
Feature description | Taxonomic rank | K # in matrix |
Lower molars: Entolophid incipient | Paenungulata | 34–1 |
Upper molars: Mesostyle well-developed in M1-3 | Paenungulata | 98–1 |
Upper molars: Mesostyle labial | Paenungulata | 99–2 |
Upper molars: Ectoloph selenodont, centrocrista linked to mesostyle | Paenungulata | 101–2 |
M1<M2<M3 | ?Paenungulata | 111–1 |
I3 vestigial | Proboscidea or autapomorphy | 7–1 |
No diastema between C1 and P3 | Autapomorphy* | 10–0 1(r), 69–1 (r) |
P1-2 absent | Autapomorphy* | 11–3, 13–3, 72–1; 74–1 |
Lower molars: Hypoconulid reduced and lingual in M1-2 | Autapomorphy | 41–1, 42–1 |
I2 enlarged | Proboscidea or autapomorphy | 67–1 |
C1 stout and anthropoid-like (lingual cingulum, asymmetrical labio-lingual profile) | Autapomorphy* | - |
Lower molars: Protoconid and hypoconid selenodont-like with semi-lunar wear facets | Autapomorphy | - |
Upper cheek teeth more or less homodont | Autapomorphy | - |
Lower incisors compressed with root wide and short | Autapomorphy* | - |
Dentition megadont | Autapomorphy*? | - |
Upper molars: weak lingual cingulum, continuous around the protocone | Autapomorphy? | - |
Lower molars: Paraconid median in M3 | ? | - |
Molars bunodont | ? (“ungulates”) | 25–1, 88–1 |
Numbers refer to those of the matrix that is analyzed in this work (see Text S1, part II).