Estimating impact forces of tail club strikes by ankylosaurid dinosaurs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Arbour, Victoria Megan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYLOSAURID DINOSAUR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOSAUR; ILIAC BONE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PELVIC GIRDLE; SACRUM; TAIL; TENDON; VERTEBRA; ANIMAL; FOSSIL;

ANKYLOSAURIDAE; DINOSAURIA;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; TAIL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69849093606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006738     Document Type: Article

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