Linear and geometric morphometric analysis of long bone scaling patterns in jurassic neosauropod dinosaurs: Their functional and paleobiological implications

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1089-1111

  Bonnan, Matthew F ^a  

^a WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Bone; Functional morphology; Geometric morphometrics; Paleobiology; Sauropod

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DINOSAUR; FEMUR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOMETRY; HUMERUS; JURASSIC; LIMB MOVEMENT; LONG BONE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WEIGHT BEARING;

DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; DINOSAURS; FEMUR; HUMERUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PALEONTOLOGY; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 34748896058     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20578     Document Type: Article

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