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What Lies Beneath: Sub-Articular Long Bone Shape Scaling in Eutherian Mammals and Saurischian Dinosaurs Suggests Different Locomotor Adaptations for Gigantism

Eutherian mammals and saurischian dinosaurs both evolved lineages of huge terrestrial herbivores. Although significantly more saurischian dinosaurs were giants than eutherians, the long bones of both taxa scale similarly and suggest that locomotion was dynamically similar. However, articular cartila...

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Autores principales: Bonnan, Matthew F., Wilhite, D. Ray, Masters, Simon L., Yates, Adam M., Gardner, Christine K., Aguiar, Adam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3793987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24130690
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075216