Finite element analyses of ankylosaurid dinosaur tail club impacts

Anatomical Record

Volumn 292, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1412-1426

  Arbour, Victoria M ^a   Snively, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ankylosauria; Biomechanics; Euoplocephalus; Finite element analysis; Functional morphology; Palaeobiology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANKYLOSAURID; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DINOSAUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOSSIL; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STRESS; TAIL; VERTEBRA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; DINOSAURS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOVEMENT; SPINE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TAIL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEIGHT-BEARING;

ANKYLOSAURIA; ANKYLOSAURIDAE; DINOSAURIA;

EID: 73249136708     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20987     Document Type: Article

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