The digital Plateosaurus I: Body mass, mass distribution and posture assessed using cad and cae on a digitally mounted complete skeleton

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-26

  Mallison, Heinrich ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Plateosaurus; Virtual skeleton

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DINOSAUR; IDENTIFICATION KEY; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; POSTURE; SKELETON; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRIASSIC;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; PLATEOSAURUS;

EID: 77956899310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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