Posture, locomotion, and paleoecology of pterosaurs

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 376, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-64

  Chatterjee, Sankar ^a   Templin, R J ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flight performance; Mesozoic reptiles; Pterosaurs; Terrestrial locomotion; Wing design

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ANTENNAS; ASPECT RATIO; ECOLOGY; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); PLANFORMS; SPEED;

DEVASTATING EFFECTS; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; MESOZOIC; PTEROSAURS; SKELETAL STRUCTURES; SPECIES RECOGNITION; TERRESTRIAL LOCOMOTION; WING DESIGN;

WINGS;

BODY SIZE; DINOSAUR; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; TYPE SPECIMEN; WING MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84870788847     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2376-0.1     Document Type: Article

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