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Tiny dinosaurs: are they fully grown?
Abstract
Newly discovered tiny fabrosaurid ornithopods from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of western Colorado, a related tiny ornithopod Hypsilophodon foxii, two tiny coelurosaurian theropods, Compsognathus longipes and C. corralestris, and Archaeopteryx lithographica are analyzed to determine their probable ontogenetic stage. Based on models of growth of selected living precocial, cursorial birds and on the proportional expression of bone sizes and degree of their ossification, it is suggested that these tiny dinosaurs were subadult to adult and probably grew no larger than domestic chickens (except Hypsilophodon which probably grew to the size of a domestic turkey).
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“The low CI of Epidendrosaurus may be due to its hatchling age because crural ratios increase during ontogeny in extant avians [71], [72] and other theropods [73].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Callison, G., & Quimby, H. M.
- Affiliations
- California State University, Long Beach (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1984-03
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 200-209
- ISSN
- 0272-4634 (ISSN-L)
- 1937-2809
- OpenAlex
- W2083993513
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 0.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Anatomy › Comparative Animal Anatomy Studies
- Keywords
- ontogeny, juvenile dinosaurs, ornithopod dinosaurs, Archaeopteryx lithographica, Late Jurassic, Morrison Formation, ossification, body proportions, growth models, precocial birds
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