- Title Information
- Title
- Skeletons reanimated: avian validation of tyrannosaur pose reconstruction
- Abstract
- Bone orientations and soft tissues movements of extinct theropods such as Tyrannosaurus rex cannot be studied directly. However, analyzing the movements of birds, the extant relatives of theropod dinosaurs, sheds light on what fossils do not tell us. X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM) was employed to explore variation in guineafowl locomotion. Analysis of mid-stance (mid-step) frames allowed us to constrain the number bone orientations possible during mid-stance. Mid-stance poses and their relationship with the ground reaction force are highly variable, possibly due to unavoidable disparities in bird hip height and pelvis pitch angle.
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- McLellan, Oliver
- Role
- Role Term
- creator
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Brown University. Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards
- Role
- Role Term
- research program
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Gatesy, Stephen
- Role
- Role Term
- advisor
- affiliation
- Brown University. Department of Biology
- Origin Information
- Publisher
- Brown University
- Date Created
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- 2014-08-07
- Place
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Text
- Providence
- Genre (aat)
- posters
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Tyrannosaur
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Tyrannosaurus rex
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Theropod
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Guineafowl
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Guinea fowl
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- XROMM
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Vertebrate paleontology
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dinosaur pose reconstruction
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Midstance
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Mid-stance
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/jbr8-8v32
- Type of Resource
- text