Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage

PLoS Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Benson, Roger B J ^a   Campione, Nicolás E ^b,c   Carrano, Matthew T ^d   Mannion, Philip D ^e   Sullivan, Corwin ^f   Upchurch, Paul ^g   Evans, David C ^c,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BONE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOSAUR; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; LIMB; LOWER TRIASSIC; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MESOZOIC; MIDDLE JURASSIC; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; CLASSIFICATION; FEATHER; FOSSIL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; DINOSAURS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; EXTREMITIES; FEATHERS; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84901433797     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001853     Document Type: Article

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