Table 2. Angles and lengths of terminal and ancestral ontogenetic trajectories.
Angles of ontogenetic trajectories against PC 1, pairwise angles between ontogenetic trajectories in the PC 1–PC 2 morphospace and length of ontogenetic trajectories in the PC 1–PC 2 morphospace (Fig. 3A).
| Saurischia | Massospondylus | Neotheropoda | Coelophysis | Orionides | Megalosaurid taxon | Avetheropoda | Allosaurus | Tarbosaurus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angle (PC 1–PC 2) | 29.5357 | 15.193 | 19.6691 | 4.0256 | 33.2773 | 35.5725 | 29.4664 | 65.5478 | 79.1993 |
| Length (PC 1–PC 2) | 0.082 | 0.1372 | 0.1202 | 0.1162 | 0.0879 | 0.1571 | 0.0429 | 0.044 | 0.0735 |
| Saurischia | – | ||||||||
| Massospondylus | 14.3427 | – | |||||||
| Neotheropoda | 9.8666 | 4.4761 | – | ||||||
| Coelophysis | 25.5101 | 11.1674 | 15.6435 | – | |||||
| Orionides | 3.7416 | 18.0843 | 13.6082 | 29.2517 | – | ||||
| Megalosaurid taxon | 6.0368 | 20.3795 | 15.9034 | 31.5469 | 2.2952 | – | |||
| Avetheropoda | 0.0693 | 14.2734 | 9.7973 | 25.4408 | 3.8109 | 6.1061 | – | ||
| Allosaurus | 84.9165 | 99.2591 | 94.783 | 110.4266 | 81.1749 | 78.8797 | 84.9858 | – | |
| Tarbosaurus | 71.265 | 85.6076 | 81.1315 | 96.7751 | 67.5234 | 65.2282 | 71.3343 | 13.6515 | – |