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Re: Long Bone Scaling in Neosauropod Dinosaurs



I'm speculating again, but I wonder if carnivores
change the mechanical advantage of their limbs with
increasing body size.  For example, a recent study of
felids found that felid limb postures did not change
with increasing body size:

http://bioweb.ad.uc.edu/faculty/jayne/pubs/bcjpub50.pdf

Similarly, Greg Paul has argued that tyrannosaurs
large and small had similar limb postures:

http://www.mnhn.ul.pt/geologia/gaia/20.pdf

Does anyone know if felid limb bones scale
isometrically or not?

Guy Leahy