Fossil Reptiles

1 week ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Matthew J. Dempsey |Fossil Reptiles |John Hutchinson |Karl Bates

I. INTRODUCTION Body mass is a foundational metric for the study of all aspects of animal biology, being closely tied to geography, ecology, form, function, and physiology (LaBarbera, 1989). The mass properties of a given animal body are tied to functional and behavioural parameters.