Paleontology: Sauropod gigantism

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5899, 2008, Pages 200-201

  Sander, P Martin ^a   Clauss, Marcus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

BODY SIZE; DINOSAUR; HERBIVORE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOLOGY;

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; EGG LAYING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GIGANTISM; GROWTH RATE; HISTORY; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MASTICATION; METABOLIC RATE; MIDDLE JURASSIC; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SAUROPOD DINOSAUR; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DEVELOPMENT; DIGESTION; DINOSAURS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MASTICATION; NECK; REPRODUCTION; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA;

EID: 53749086002     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160904     Document Type: Short Survey

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25. The research of P.M.S. and M.C. was supported by the German Research Foundation (grant FOR 533). This is contribution number 46 of the DFG Research Unit 533 "Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs: The Evolution of Gigantism."