Variation in center of mass estimates for extant sauropsids and its importance for reconstructing inertial properties of extinct archosaurs

Anatomical Record

Volumn 292, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1442-1461

  Allen, Vivian ^a   Paxton, Heather ^a   Hutchinson, John R ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archosaur; Biomechanics; Bird; Center of mass; Computer modeling; Dinosaur; Locomotion; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; BODY MASS; CHICKEN; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOSAUR; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMETRY; BIRDS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHICKENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DINOSAURS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; EXTREMITIES; FOSSILS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETICS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAIL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); CROCODYLUS JOHNSONI; DINOSAURIA; GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS; SAUROPSIDA;

EID: 73249141516     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20973     Document Type: Article

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