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Brontosaur Killers: Late Jurassic Allosaurids as Sabre-Tooth Cat Analogues.
Scientific paper published in the Gaia (number 15) entitled "Brontosaur Killers: Late Jurassic Allosaurids as Sabre-Tooth Cat Analogues."
According to Kowalevskian logic, sabre-tooth top predators evolve to harvest giant, slow-moving prey. Late Jurassic sauropods, who dwarfed the largest contemporaneous predators, may be ecological equivalents of proboscideans and ground sloths. Allosaurid theropods evolved unusual jaw joints that permitted exceptional gapes, special neck muscle attachments that increased the ventral-flexing leverag…
Creator
- R.T. Bakker
Subject
- Dinossaur
- Theropod
Type of item
- scientific paper
Date
- 1998-12
- 1998-12
Medium
- paper
- Paper
Creator
- R.T. Bakker
Subject
- Dinossaur
- Theropod
Type of item
- scientific paper
Date
- 1998-12
- 1998-12
Medium
- paper
- Paper
Providing institution
Aggregator
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Rights
- Free-access: Copyright © Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência - Portugal
- PRIVATE
Creation date
- NA
- Namibia
Temporal
- Late Jurassic
Places
- NA
- Namibia
Source
- B.P. Perez-Moreno, T. Holtz Jr., J.L. Sanz & J. Moratalla (eds.) . Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology. Gaia- Geosciences Journal of the National Natural History Museum of the Lisbon University. Number 15, December 1998.
Identifier
- MNHNL-0000779-MG-DOC
Format
- application/pdf
Language
- n/a
Relations
- MNHNL-0000780-MG-DOC
Providing country
- Europe