RE: Dinosaur speed estimates

["Mallison, Heinrich" <Heinrich.Mallison@mfn-berlin.de>]

and as good as all those estimates using Alexander's Formula or derivations 
from it are, I am convinced and can show that we can't use it on non-avian 
dinosaurs. 
:) Heinrich

Dr. Heinrich Mallison
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From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] on behalf of Tony 
Thulborn [paswamp@y7mail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 3:48 AM
To: Dinosaur Mailing List
Subject: Re:  Dinosaur speed estimates

Déjà vu?


This ancient document will give you estimates for 62 dinosaurs (51 genera), 
based on skeletal measurements supplemented (where feasible) with evidence of 
tracks:

Thulborn, R. A., 1982. Speeds and gaits of dinosaurs. Palaeogeogr., 
Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 38: 227--256.  Not hard to find online.

For each animal there are estimates of speed (a) at walk-trot transition;  (b) 
at trot-run transition;  (c) at maximum.

And (principally for benefit of sensationalist news media) speed isn’t all that 
matters, anyway.  A human can run a lot faster than a mouse - but have you ever 
tried to catch a mouse?


Back to the swamp,
Tony Thulborn