Theropod forelimb design and evolution

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-187

  Middleton, Kevin M ^a   Gatesy, Stephen M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aves; Bipedalism; Dinosauria; Disparity; Flight; Limb morphology; Locomotion; Morphospace; Theropoda; Wing

Indexed keywords

AVES; DINOSAURIA; GALLIFORMES; THEROPODA;

EID: 0034348760     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00160.x     Document Type: Article

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