The bipedal stem crocodilian poposaurus gracilis: Inferring function in fossils and innovation in archosaur locomotion

Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-126

  Gauthier, Jacques A ^a   Nesbitt, Sterling J ^b,c   Schachner, Emma R ^d,e   Bever, Gabe S ^a   Joyce, Walter G ^a,f  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archosauria; Aves; Bipedality; Crocodylia; Evolution; Innovation; Locomotion; Phylogeny; Poposauroidea

Indexed keywords

ARCHOSAURIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); DINOSAURIA; REPTILIA; SAURIA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960401685     PISSN: 0079032X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3374/014.052.0102     Document Type: Article

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