Cancellous bone and theropod dinosaur locomotion. Part III—Inferring posture and locomotor biomechanics in extinct theropods, and its evolution on the line to birds
@jimmadseni A study of relevance to this: https://t.co/GSahsywR7F
Bishop et al. 2018 used cancellous bone structure to predict stance in a number of theropods, including "Troodon".
The prediction for "Troodon" plots somewhere in between the typical large theropod stance and extant birds.
@TheropodaBlog Thank you! The leg posture is based on https://t.co/4DjYTxBUd7 with edits to account for animals not maintaining perfect neutral posture when in motion, as such it's slightly more bent than it would be if the animal was standing perfectly still with both its legs aligned.
@eriorguez I'm using the posture in current research in weight bearing in large theropods, you can view the full paper here: https://t.co/4rXoLWFbFF , seemingly a very upright vertical posture is the most likely posture for weight bearing, which makes sense too
Cancellous bone and theropod dinosaur locomotion. Part III--Inferring posture and locomotor biomechanics in extinct theropods, and its evolution on the line to birds (OA) - v @thePeerJ https://t.co/ptrkU3cGqw
Cancellous bone and theropod dinosaur locomotion. Part III—Inferring posture and locomotor biomechanics in extinct theropods, and its evolution on the line to birds https://t.co/g9xYdEpR9z https://t.co/G8PDbM0Z8l
Totally epic set of three new papers consitituting parts I-III of a single gigantic work on theropod locomotion. 106+49+47 = 202 pages total!
https://t.co/8KJLfPIv6A
https://t.co/HdeVpzulA7
https://t.co/Egxrcw0IKn
Cancellous bone and theropod dinosaur locomotion. Part III—Inferring posture and locomotor biomechanics in extinct theropods, and its evolution on the line to birds https://t.co/u26yRcw4bB