Limb bone allometry during postnatal ontogeny in non-avian dinosaurs

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-152

  Kilbourne, Brandon M ^a,b   Makovicky, Peter J ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Dinosaurian; Long bones; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BONE GROWTH; DINOSAUR; FEMUR; HADROSAUR; HINDLIMB; HUMERUS; LONG BONE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; ORNITHISCHIAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIOJASAURUS INCERTUS; SAMPLE SIZE; SAUROPODOMORPH; TAXONOMY; THEROPOD; TIBIA;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BONE DEVELOPMENT; DINOSAURS; EXTREMITIES; FEMUR; HUMERUS; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; TIBIA;

AMNIOTA; AVES; DINOSAURIA; ORNITHISCHIA; SAUROPODOMORPHA; TETRAPODA; THEROPODA;

EID: 77954439106     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2010.01253.x     Document Type: Article

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