Figure 4. Vertebral profile plots of locomotory groups (i.e. arboreal, terrestrial and scansorial species) showing variation in vertebral measurements along the vertebral column number. A, centrum length (CL); B, centrum height (CH); C, centrum width (CW); D, centrum shape (CS); E, lamina width (LW); F, neural spine lever arm (NSLA); J, transverse process dorsoventral angle (TPDV); K, transverse process anteroposterior angle (TPAP); L, interzygapophyseal length (IZL); M, accessory process distance (APD). Regular vertical bars mark the boundaries between vertebral regions (i.e. cervical, thoracic and lumbar regions) and the corresponding analytical bins, while dotted vertical lines mark boundaries only related to vertebral bins.

Published as part of Randau, Marcela, Goswami, Anjali, Hutchinson, John R., Cuff, Andrew R. & Pierce, Stephanie E., 2016, Cryptic complexity in felid vertebral evolution: shape differentiation and allometry of the axial skeleton, pp. 183-202 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178 (1) on page 193, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12403, http://zenodo.org/record/5366905