Flexibility along the neck of the neogene terror bird andalgalornis steulleti (Aves Phorusrhacidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Tambussi, Claudia P ^a,b   de Mendoza, Ricardo ^a   Degrange, Federico J ^b,c   Picasso, Mariana B ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra CICTERRA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANDALGALORNIS STEULLETI; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIRD; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLEXIBILITY; HEAD MOVEMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; NECK; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; MOVEMENT; NECK; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

AVES;

EID: 84861472842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037701     Document Type: Article

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