Limb-bone scaling indicates diverse stance and gait in quadrupedal ornithischian dinosaurs.

<h4>Background</h4>The most primitive ornithischian dinosaurs were small bipeds, but quadrupedality evolved three times independently in the clade. The transition to quadrupedality from bipedal ancestors is rare in the history of terrestrial vertebrate evolution, and extant analogues do...

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Main Authors: Susannah C R Maidment, Deborah H Linton, Paul Upchurch, Paul M Barrett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22666333/pdf/?tool=EBI