TABLE 1. Ranges of month precipitations and mean annual temperatures within the geographic distribution area of various Ellobius species (https://eol.org/).
| Temperature (Max/Min) |
Precipitation (mm per month) |
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| E. fuscocapillus | 11.62/ 0.1°C | 36.01 | |
| E. lutescens | 10.79/ 0.1°C | 28.17 | |
| E. talpinus | 4.75 /0.1°C | 24.94 | |
TABLE 2. Modern reference collection for each museum specimen. Natural History Museum of London (NHM), Field Museum of Chicago (FM) and American Museum of Natural History of New York (AMNH). Archaeological specimens from Kaldar Cave, MP = Middle Palaeolithic, UP = Upper Palaeolithic.
| Reference collection | ||||
| Right lower m1 | NHM | AMNH | FM | Total |
| Ellobius fuscocapillus | 6 | - | 34 | 40 |
| Ellobius lutescens | 6 | - | - | 6 |
| Ellobius talpinus | 7 | 11 | 20 | 38 |
| Total | 19 | 11 | 54 | 84 |
| Kaldar Cave | ||||
| Right lower m1 | Level 5(MP) | Level 4(UP) | Total | |
| Ellobius fuscocapillus | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Ellobius lutescens | 6 | 2 | 8 | |
| Total | 7 | 3 | 10 | |
| Left lower m1 | Level 5(MP) | Level 4(UP) | Total | |
| Ellobius fuscocapillus | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Ellobius lutescens | 4 | 7 | 11 | |
TABLE 3. Contribution of the first 10th PCs to the total variance (%). PCA: principal component analysis.
| PC | PC1 | PC2 | PC3 | PC4 | PC5 | PC6 | PC7 | PC8 | PC9 | PC10 |
| % | 38.2 | 14.5 | 8.1 | 6.9 | 4.2 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
TABLE 4. Cross-validated classification results in frequencies and %.
| E. fuscocapillus | E. lutescens | E. talpinus | None | |||||
| Taxon | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % |
| E. fuscocapillus | 37 | 78.72 | 10 | 21.27 | 0 | - | 0 | - |
| E. lutescens | 2 | 13,33 | 13 | 86.66 | 0 | - | 0 | - |
| E. talpinus | 0 | - | 0 | - | 36 | 94.73 | 2 | 5.26 |
