Pectoral girdle and forelimb variation in extant Crocodylia: The coracoid-humerus pair as an evolutionary module

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 600-618

  Chamero, Beatriz ^a   Buscalioni, Ángela D ^a   Marugán Lobón, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geometric morphometrics; Integration; Morphological variation

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CROCODILIAN; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOMETRY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84874005778     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.02037.x     Document Type: Article

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