Swimming speed estimation of extinct marine reptiles: Energetic approach revisited

Paleobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 251-262

  Motani, Ryosuke ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; ENERGETICS; LOCOMOTION; MESOZOIC; MORPHOLOGY; REPTILE; SWIMMING;

CETACEA; ICHTHYOSAURIA; MOSASAURUS; PLESIOSAURIA; REPTILIA; STENOPTERYGIUS; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036071117     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028<0251:SSEOEM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Scaling effects on muscle function: Power output of isolated muscle fibres performing oscillatory work
2. Power output and the frequency of oscillatory work in mammalian diaphragm muscle: The effects of animal size
3. Oscillating foils of high propulsive efficiency
4. Experimental and fossil evidence for the evolution of tetrapod energetics
5. Efficiency of fast- and slow-twitch muscles of the mouse performing cyclic contractions
6. Metabolism
7. Direct measurements of swimming speeds and depth of blue marlin
8. Environmental preferences of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) at the northern extent of its range
9. Propulsion of a fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus): Why the fin whale is a fast swimmer
10. The English Upper Jurassic Plesiosauroidea (Reptilia) and a review of the phylogeny and classification of the Plesiosauria
11. Efficiency of energy conversion during sinusoidal movement of white muscle fibres from the dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula
12. Efficiency of energy conversion during sinusoidal movement of red muscle fibres from the dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula
13. A reappraisal of the aquatic specializations of the Galapagos Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)
14. Studies of tropical tuna swimming performance in a large water tunnel. I. Energetics
15. Studies of tropical tuna swimming performance in a large water tunnel. III. Kinematics
16. Metabolic rates of minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in cold water
17. Power output and propulsive efficiency of swimming bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
18. Comparative kinematics and hydrodynamics of odontocete cetaceans: Morphological and ecological correlates with swimming performance
19. Kinematics and estimated thrust production of swimming harp and ringed seals
20. Plesiosaur subaqueous locomotion
21. Efficiency of vertebrate locomotory muscles
22. Size and power in mammals
23. The metabolic cost of swimming in marine homeotherms
24. Magen- und Darminhalte von Ichthyosauriern des süddeutschen Posidonienschiefers
25. Oxygen stores and aerobic metabolism in the leatherback sea turtle
26. Telemetry applied to behaviour analysis of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares, Bonnaterre, 1788) movements in a network of fish aggregating devices
27. Swimming, capabilities of Mesozoic marine reptiles: Implications for method of predation
28. Swimming capabilities of Mesozoic marine reptiles: A review
29. Introduction to part IV
30. Ichthyosaurian tail: Sharks do not provide an appropriate analogue
31. Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia
32. Estimating body mass from silhouettes: Testing the assumption of elliptical body cross-sections
33. Eel-like swimming in the earliest ichthyosaurs
34. Metabolism of leatherback turtles, gigantothermy, and thermoregulation of dinosaurs
35. The locomotion of plesiosaurs
36. On thrust estimates for flapping foils
37. Life in moving fluids
38. Is the high cost of body/caudal fin undulatory swimming due to increased friction drag or internal recoil?
39. Swimming kinematics of sharks
40. The effect of size and swimming speed on locomotor kinematics of rainbow trout
41. The evolution of cost efficient swimming in marine mammals: Limits to energetic optimization
42. The physiology of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus): Heart rate, metabolic rate and plasma lactate concentration during exercise
43. A mounted skeleton of Platecarpus
44. Near-body flow dynamics in swimming fish
45. Energy expenditure of swimming bottlenose dolphins