Supplementary Data for poster presentation by R. C. Hulbert, Jr. and S. C. Wallace at the 2005 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Mesa, Arizona.

Revised Abstract of the Poster (updates the one printed in the meeting booklet)

List of Characters and Character States

Character State Matrix

Consensus Cladogram produced by PAUP 4.0b10 using all 5 outgroups. PAUP analysis of the 14 taxa and 79 characters (of which 64 were parsimony informative) produced six equally most parsimonious trees. Each had a tree length of 154, a consistency index (excluding uninformative characters) of 0.65, and a homoplasy index of 0.35.

Consensus Cladogram produced by PAUP 4.0b10 using 3 outgroups. PAUP analysis of 12 taxa and 79 characters (of which 48 were parsimony informative) also produced six equally most parsimonious trees. Each had a tree length of 105, a consistency index (excluding uninformative characters) of 0.66, and a homoplasy index of 0.34. The strict consensus tree of these six trees is shown above and to the right. Bootstrap analysis using 1000 replicates revealed strong support (> 90%) for most nodes.

Download a copy of 2005 research paper by R. C. Hulbert published in the Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, click here (pdf file, 662 kb). This work includes the description of a new species, Tapirus webbi.

Revised 7 February 2006 by R. C. Hulbert, Jr.