Pedal claw curvature in birds, lizards and mesozoic dinosaurs--complicated categories and compensating for mass-specific and phylogenetic control.

Pedal claw geometry can be used to predict behaviour in extant tetrapods and has frequently been used as an indicator of lifestyle and ecology in Mesozoic birds and other fossil reptiles, sometimes without acknowledgement of the caveat that data from other aspects of morphology and proportions also...

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Autores principales: Aleksandra V Birn-Jeffery, Charlotte E Miller, Darren Naish, Emily J Rayfield, David W E Hone
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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