Virtual palaeontology: Gait reconstruction of extinct vertebrates using high performance computing

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Sellers, W I ^a   Manning, P L ^a   Lyson, T ^b   Stevens, K ^c   Margetts, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dinosaur; Hadrosaur; Locomotion; Robotics; Simulation

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; LOCOMOTION; PALEONTOLOGY; SIMULATION; TRACKWAY; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 77954647469     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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