Differential limb scaling in the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) and its implications for archosaur locomotor evolution

Anatomical Record

Volumn 292, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 787-797

  Livingston, Victoria J ^a   Bonnan, Matthew F ^a   Elsey, Ruth M ^b   Sandrik, Jennifer L ^a   Wilhite, D Ray ^c  

^a WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alligator mississippiensis; Allometry; Bipedalism; Crocodylia; Morphometrics

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EVOLUTION; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LEG LENGTH; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; LONG BONE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; EVOLUTION; FEMUR; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION;

ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLIFORMES; DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODOMORPHA;

EID: 67651176198     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20912     Document Type: Article

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