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An approach to scoring cursorial limb proportions in carnivorous dinosaurs and an attempt to account for allometry
From an initial dataset of 53 theropod species, the general relationship between theropod lower-leg length and body mass is identified. After factoring out this allometric relationship, theropod hindlimb proportions are assessed irrespective of body mass. Cursorial-limb-proportion (CLP) scores deriv...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4728391/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26813782 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep19828 |