dinos: Dinosaur data from Campione and Evans 2012

Description Usage Format Source

Description

Humeral and Femoral circumference data for eight quadrupedal dinosaurs

Usage

1

Format

A data frame with 8 observations and the following 3 variables.

Taxon

a factor with levels Brachiosaurs Corythosaurus Diplodocus Iguanodon Protoceratops Stegosaurus Styracosaurus Triceratops

HC

a numeric vector of humeral circumferences

FC

a numeric vector of femoral circumferences

Source

Campione, N. E. and Evans, D. C. (2012) A universal scaling relationship between body mass and proximal limb bone dimensions in quadrupedal terrestrial tetrapods. BMC Biology, 10, 60.


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