A biomechanical constraint on body mass in terrestrial mammalian predators

Lethaia

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 333-347

  Sorkin, Boris ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass; Bone stress; Evolutionary constraint; Maximal running speed; Terrestrial mammalian predators

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS; BONE; CENOZOIC; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PREDATOR;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 56349118157     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2007.00091.x     Document Type: Article

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