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Nonplantigrade Foot Posture: A Constraint on Dinosaur Body Size

Dinosaurs had functionally digitigrade or sub-unguligrade foot postures. With their immediate ancestors, dinosaurs were the only terrestrial nonplantigrades during the Mesozoic. Extant terrestrial mammals have different optimal body sizes according to their foot posture (plantigrade, digitigrade, an...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Kubo, Tai, Kubo, Mugino O.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4720450/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26790003
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0145716
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