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Nonplantigrade Foot Posture: A Constraint on Dinosaur Body Size
Dinosaurs had functionally digitigrade or sub-unguligrade foot postures. With their immediate ancestors, dinosaurs were the only terrestrial nonplantigrades during the Mesozoic. Extant terrestrial mammals have different optimal body sizes according to their foot posture (plantigrade, digitigrade, an...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4720450/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26790003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145716 |