On the size and flight diversity of giant pterosaurs, the use of birds as pterosaur analogues and comments on pterosaur flightlessness

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Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Witton, Mark P ^a   Habib, Michael B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b CHATHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BONE STRENGTH; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOSAUR; FLYING; FORELIMB; FOSSIL; GIANT PTEROSAUR; KINEMATICS; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; SKELETON; SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; BODY SIZE; BONE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; BONE AND BONES; DINOSAURS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FORELIMB; FOSSILS; SKELETON; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WING;

EID: 78649759555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013982     Document Type: Article

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