Cardiovascular evidence for an intermediate or higher metabolic rate in an ornithischian dinosaur

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5465, 2000, Pages 503-505

  Fisher, Paul E ^a   Russell, Dale A ^a   Stoskopf, Michael K ^a   Barrick, Reese E ^a   Hammer, Michael ^b   Kuzmitz, Andrew A ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hammer and Hammer Paleotek   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; METABOLISM;

AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE;

ANIMALS; AORTA; BASAL METABOLISM; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHT; FOSSILS; HEART; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRON COMPOUNDS; PALEONTOLOGY; REPTILES; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

DINOSAURIA; ORNITHISCHIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034697307     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5465.503     Document Type: Article

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20. The authors are grateful to B. Bennett and V. Schneider of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences for access to the specimen, to W. H. Straight for XRD analyses, and to R. Lea for his advice and encouragement. A.K. thanks D. Perry for the CT scans; the Ashland Community and Rogue Valley hospitals for access to CT equipment; and cardiologists of Cardiology Consultants PC of Medford, OR, for their comments on the possible fossil cardiac structures. T. Jetton assisted M.H. in the preparation of the dinosaur specimen.