OH2012 {MASSTIMATE}

Body Mass Estimates Using O'Gorman & Hone (2012)

Description

This function is meant for dinosaur mass estimation from femoral length as presented by O'Gorman & Hone (2012)

Usage

OH2012(FL, eqn, data=NULL)

Arguments

FL

a value or vector representing femoral length (in mm)

eqn

a character specifying the desired prediction equation (see Details)

data

an optional object of class = "data.frame" or class = "matrix"

Details

Possible estimation equations (eqn =) include: "theropods", "sauropods", and "ornithischians". See O'Gorman & Hone (2012) for specific details and Campione & Evans (2020) for evaluations of the models. If a data object is specified, the mass estiamtes will be added as a column to the data.frame or matrix within that object.

Value

OH2012

A vector representing the mass estimate(s) in log grams and grams

Author(s)

Nicolas E. Campione

References

O'Gorman, E. J. and Hone, D. W. E. (2012) Body Size Distribution of the Dinosaurs. PLoS ONE 7(12): e51925.

Campione, N. E. and Evans, D. C. (2020) The accuracy and precisions of body mass estimation in non-avian dinosaurs. Biological Reviews.

See Also

cQE QE