Body size in mammalian paleobiology: estimation and biological implications
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| adam_text | Body size in
mammalian paleobiology
Estimation and biological implications
Edited by
JOHN DAMUTH
University of California, Santa Barbara
BRUCE J MACFADDEN
Florida Museum of Natural History
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Contents
Preface page vii
Contributors
ix
1 Introduction: body size and its estimation
JOHN DAMUTH AND BRUCE J MACFADDEN 1
2 The physiological significance of body size 11
BRIAN K MCNAB
3 The behavioral/ecological significance of body size in 25
the Mammalia
JOHN F EISENBERG
4 The functional anatomy of body mass 39
THEODORE I GRAND
5 Estimating body mass and correlated variables in extinct 49
mammals: travels in the fourth dimension
ROBERT A MARTIN
6 Evolutionary strategies and body size in a guild 69
of mammals
VIRGINIA C MAIORANA
7 Problems and methods in reconstructing body size in 103
fossil primates
WILLIAM L JUNGERS
8 Body mass and hindlimb bone cross-sectional and 119
articular dimensions in anthropoid primates
CHRISTOPHER RUFF
vi Contents
9 Insular dwarf elephants: a case study in body mass 151
estimation and ecological inference
V LOUISE ROTH
10 Skeletal and dental predictors of body mass in carnivores 181
BLAIRE VAN VALKENBURGH
11 Problems with using fossil teeth to estimate body sizes of 207
extinct mammals
MIKAEL FORTELIUS
12 Problems in estimating body masses of archaic ungulates 229
using dental measurements
JOHN DAMUTH
13 Correlation of cranial and dental variables with body size 255
in ungulates and macropodoids
CHRISTINE M JANIS
14 Postcranial dimensions of ungulates as predictors of 301
body mass
KATHLEEN M SCOTT
15 Body size estimates and size distribution of ungulate 337
mammals from the Late Miocene Love Bone Bed
of Florida
BRUCE J MACFADDEN AND RICHARD C HULBERT, JR
16 Appendix: Prediction equations 365
Index 391
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