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Fig. 5

From: Exceptionally simple, rapidly replaced teeth in sauropod dinosaurs demonstrate a novel evolutionary strategy for herbivory in Late Jurassic ecosystems

Fig. 5

Violin plot illustrating the range in dental complexity of herbivorous dinosaurs. The width of each bar represents the relative proportion of teeth with a particular complexity and the median is designated by a horizontal line. Sauropods have a much lower range in complexities compared to ornithischians, the latter of which are frequently characterized by a heterodont dentition. All analyses were performed at models with 1000 triangles and a minimum patch count of three polygons

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BMC Ecology and Evolution

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