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Downsizing a giant: re-evaluating Dreadnoughtus body mass
Estimates of body mass often represent the founding assumption on which biomechanical and macroevolutionary hypotheses are based. Recently, a scaling equation was applied to a newly discovered titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur (Dreadnoughtus), yielding a 59 300 kg body mass estimate for this animal. H...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4528471/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26063751 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0215 |