Investigating the quadrupedal abilities of Scutellosaurus lawleri and its implications for locomotor behavior evolution among dinosaurs
Lilian Anderson; Charlotte Brassey; Stuart Pond; Karl T. Bates; William I. Sellers · 2023 · The Anatomical Record
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Abstract
A reversion to secondary quadrupedality is exceptionally rare in nature, yet the convergent re-evolution of this locomotor style occurred at least four separate times within Dinosauria. Facultative quadrupedality, an intermediate state between obligate bipedality and obligate quadrupedality, may have been an important transitional step in this locomotor shift, and is proposed for a range of basal ornithischians and sauropodomorphs. Advances in virtual biomechanical modeling and simulation have allowed for the investigation of limb anatomy and function in a range of extinct dinosaurian species,
Abstract by Lilian Anderson; Charlotte Brassey; Stuart Pond; Karl T. Bates; William I. Sellers, The Anatomical Record (2023) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1002/ar.25189