An approach to scoring cursorial limb proportions in carnivorous dinosaurs and an attempt to account for allometry

From an initial dataset of 53 theropod species, the general relationship between theropod lower-leg length and body mass is identified. After factoring out this allometric relationship, theropod hindlimb proportions are assessed irrespective of body mass. Cursorial-limb-proportion (CLP) scores deriv...

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Main Authors: Persons IV, W. Scott, Currie, Philip J.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4728391/