Bite club: Comparative bite force in big biting mammals and the prediction of predatory behaviour in fossil taxa

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1563, 2005, Pages 619-625

  Wroe, Stephen ^a   McHenry, Colin ^b   Thomason, Jeffrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bite force; Carnivora; Dasyuromorphia; Osteophagy; Prey size; Thylacoleonidae

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARNIVORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FOSSIL; JAW MUSCLE; MARSUPIAL; MASTICATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKULL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CANIS DIRUS; CARNIVORA; DASYUROMORPHIA; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII; SMILODON FATALIS; THYLACINUS CYNOCEPHALUS; THYLACOLEO CARNIFEX; THYLACOLEONIDAE; THYLACOSMILUS ATROX;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BITE FORCE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FOSSILS; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKULL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 23244445999     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2986     Document Type: Article

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