dinos {MASSTIMATE}

Dinosaur data from Campione and Evans 2012

Description

Humeral and Femoral circumference data for eight quadrupedal dinosaurs

Usage

data(dinos)

Format

A data frame with 8 observations and the following 3 variables.

Taxon

a factor with levels Brachiosaurs Corythosaurus Diplodocus Iguanodon Protoceratops Stegosaurus Styracosaurus Triceratops

HC

a numeric vector of humeral circumferences

FC

a numeric vector of femoral circumferences

Source

Campione, N. E. and Evans, D. C. (2012) A universal scaling relationship between body mass and proximal limb bone dimensions in quadrupedal terrestrial tetrapods. BMC Biology, 10, 60.