Body mass estimations for Plateosaurus engelhardti using laser scanning and 3D reconstruction methods

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 623-630

  Gunga, Hanns Christian ^a,c   Suthau, Tim ^b   Bellmann, Anke ^b   Friedrich, Andreas ^b   Schwanebeck, Thomas ^b   Stoinski, Stefan ^b   Trippel, Tobias ^a   Kirsch, Karl ^a   Hellwich, Olaf ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body mass estimation; Dinosauria; Paleoecology; Paleophysiology; Sauropoda; Specific tissue density

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SHAPE; DINOSAUR; ELEPHANT; ESTIMATION METHOD; LASER; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SURFACE AREA; TRIASSIC;

ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY MASS; DINOSAUR; ELEPHANT; GERMANY; HINDLIMB; LASER; NONHUMAN; PLATEOSAURUS ENGELHARDTI; TAIL; THORAX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; DENMARK; FOSSILS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMALS; MUSEUMS;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; TUBINGEN;

DINOSAURIA; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS; PLATEOSAURUS; SAUROPODA;

EID: 34447125863     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0234-2     Document Type: Article

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