*4.10. Statistics*

Basic descriptive statistics as well as correlation analyses were computed with the help of the PAST software (University of Oslo; Paleontological Statistics, version 4.03, https://www.nhm.uio.no/english/ research/infrastructure/past/). Non-parametric correlation coefficients (Spearman's *rs* and Kendall's tau) were calculated for the correlation analyses. Monte Carlo permutation tests were available for all the correlation coefficients. The significance was computed using a two-tailed *t* test with *n – 2* degrees of freedom. A *p* value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
