Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1736, 2012, Pages 2180-2187

  Sookias, Roland B ^a,b   Butler, Richard J ^a   Benson, Roger B J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archosauromorpha; Body size; Cope's rule; Evolutionary trends; Permo Triassic; Therapsida

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLADISTICS; DATA SET; DINOSAUR; DOMINANCE; ECOMORPHOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION RISK; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN; TAXONOMY; TRIASSIC;

EID: 84859984927     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2441     Document Type: Article

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