Common functional correlates of Head-Strike behavior in the pachycephalosaur Stegoceras validum (ornithischia, dinosauria) and combative artiodactyls

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Snively, Eric ^a   Theodor, Jessica M ^b  

^a Ohio University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KERATIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTILOCAPRA AMERICANA; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; BONE STRUCTURE; BRAIN REGION; CANCELLOUS BONE; CEPHALUS LEUCOGASTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL BONE; DINOSAUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS; HEAD STRIKE BEHAVIOR; LAMA GLAMA; NONHUMAN; OVIBUS MOSCHATUS; PRENOCEPHALE PRENES; STEGOCERAS VALIDUM; TISSUE ADHESION; TISSUE SECTION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL;

ANIMALIA; ANTILOCAPRIDAE; ARTIODACTYLA; BOS; CEPHALOPHUS; CEPHALOPHUS LEUCOGASTER; CRANIA; DINOSAURIA; GIRAFFIDAE; LAMA (MAMMAL); ORNITHISCHIA; OVIS CANADENSIS; PRENOCEPHALE PRENES; STEGOCERAS; STEGOCERAS VALIDUM; VENTRIDENS LAWAE;

ANIMALS; ARTIODACTYLA; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; SKULL;

EID: 79959581606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021422     Document Type: Article

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