March of the titans: The locomotor capabilities of sauropod dinosaurs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Sellers, William Irvin ^a   Margetts, Lee ^a   Ébal Coria, Rodolfo An ^b   Manning, Phillip Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE RÍO NEGRO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARGENTINOSAURUS HUINCULENSIS; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOSAUR; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; MACHINE LEARNING; METABOLISM; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; RANGE OF MOTION; SAUROPOD; SIMULATION; SKELETON; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; VERTEBRATE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOSSIL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84897518607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078733     Document Type: Article

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