Functional shape of the skull in vertebrates: Which forces determine skull morphology in lower primates and ancestral synapsids?

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 283, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 402-413

  Preuschoft, Holger ^a   Witzel, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Functional morphology; Gorgonopsians; Lemuriformes; Opossum; Snapping; Synthesis of skull shape; Therocephalians

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE STRESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FOSSIL; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MASTICATION; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; ORBIT; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SKULL; SYNAPSID; TOOTH; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DOGS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOSSILS; OPOSSUMS; PRIMATES; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

DIDELPHIDAE; LEMURIFORMES; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 16444365908     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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