ArticleScientific reports2019
Divergent evolution of terrestrial locomotor abilities in extant Crocodylia.
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- Musculoskeletal modelling of the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) hindlimb: Effects of limb posture on leverage during terrestrial locomotion.Journal of anatomy · 2021Article
- The evolutionary biomechanics of locomotor function in giant land animals.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
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- Estimating Gaits of an Ancient Crocodile-Line Archosaur Through Trajectory Optimization, With Comparison to Fossil Trackways.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021Article
- Vertebrae-Based Body Length Estimation in Crocodylians and Its Implication for Sexual Maturity and the Maximum Sizes.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
- Appendicular Muscle Physiology and Biomechanics inIntegrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
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Abstract
Extant Crocodylia are exceptional because they employ almost the full range of quadrupedal footfall patterns ("gaits") used by mammals; including asymmetrical gaits such as galloping and bounding. Perhaps this capacity evolved in stem Crocodylomorpha, during the Triassic when taxa were smaller, terrestrial, and long-legged. However, confusion about which Crocodylia use asymmetrical gaits and why persists, impeding reconstructions of locomotor evolution. Our experimental gait analysis of locomotor kinematics across 42 individuals from 15 species of Crocodylia obtained 184 data points for a wide velocity range (0.15-4.35 ms
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