How big is a giant? The importance of method in estimating body size of extinct mammals

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 321-332

  Reynolds, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Beaver; Body size; Castor; Castoroides; Fossils; Palaeocastor; Phylogeny; Regression

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; CENOZOIC; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTINCTION; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CASTOR; CASTOR FIBER; MAMMALIA; URSUS AMERICANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036261877     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2002)083<0321:HBIAGT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Body support, scaling and allometry
2. The role of phylogenetic analysis in the inference of unpreserved attributes of extinct taxa
3. The reduced major axis of a bivariate sample
4. Giant beaver from a post-Woodfordian lake near Madison, Wisconsin
5. Introduction
6. Fossil history of the families of Recent mammals
7. The largest land animal
8. A description of Castoroides ohioensis from Minnesota
9. Phylogenies and the comparative method
10. The largest land mammal ever imagined
11. Confidence intervals rather than P values: Estimation rather than hypothesis testing
12. Phylogenetic analysis of covariance by computer simulation
13. Using the past to predict the present: Confidence intervals for regression equations in phylogenetic comparative methods
14. Evolutionary relationships of the Nearctic Sciuridae
15. The order Rodentia: Major questions on their evolutionary origin, relationships and suprafamilial systematics
16. The Pleistocene mammals of Iowa
17. Correlation of cranial and dental variables with body size in ungulates and macropodoids
18. Castor canadensis
19. The burrows of the Miocene beavers Palaeocastor, western Nebraska, U.S.A.
20. Phylogenetic analyses of the correlated evolution of continuous characters: A simulation study
21. The structural relationship: Regression in biology
22. Protrogomorph, sciuromorph, castorimorph, myomorph (geomyoid, anomaluroid, pedetoid, and ctenodactyloid) rodents
23. Concerning a skeleton of the great fossil beaver Castoroides ohioensis
24. The recently found Castoroides in Randolph County, Indiana
25. A cranium of Castoroides found at Greenfield Ind.
26. Methodological aspects of scaling in biology
27. Phylogenetic analysis of avian energetics: Passerines and non-passerines do not differ
28. Linear regression in fishery research
29. Computation and uses of central trend lines
30. Fitting straight lines when both variables are subject to error
31. Rodent macromolecular systematics
32. The geometric mean functional relationship
33. Cranial morphology of Castoroides
34. La relation d'allometrie: Sa signification statistique et biologique
35. Eocene radiation and phylogeny of the rodents
36. The early Tertiary rodents of the family Paramyidae
37. Hystricognath rodents