extants {MASSTIMATE}

Extant limb data from Campione and Evans 2012

Description

Humeral and Femoral data for 245 living tetrapods, including mammals and reptiles

Usage

data(extants)

Format

A data frame with 245 observations and the following 13 variables.

Mon.Groups

a character vector representing the inclusive clade

Family

a character vector representing the family level taxonomy

Species

a character vector identifying the mammal or reptile species

Common.Name

a character vector identifying the common species name

SP.

a character vector specifying the specimen number (see Campione and Evans 2012 for more details)

BM

a numeric vector of body masses (in g)

Humerus.Length

a numeric vector of humeral lengths (in mm)

HC

a numeric vector of humeral circumferences (in mm)

Femur.Length

a numeric vector of femoral lengths (in mm)

FC

a numeric vector of femoral circumferences (in mm)

HCFC

a numeric vector of combined humeral and femoral circumferences (in mm)

log.BM

a numeric vector of the base-10 logarithms of body masses

log.HCFC

a numeric vector of the base-10 logarithms of combined humeral and 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.