… and phylogenetic diversification in terrestrial mammals that led to an … Here we analyze
maximum size of terrestrial mammals … We compiled and analyzed data on the maximum body size …

… In this article, I address the relationship between body size, … rich fossil record of terrestrial
mammals in North America and … in extinction selectivity across body-size spectra reported by …

… in the maximum and minimum body size across the two environments (… terrestrial mammals
demonstrates that terrestrial mammals reach smaller body sizes while marine mammals …

… and placental terrestrial mammals (including 14 orders) and their average body masses in
… We observed a decrease in maximum dietary diversity with increasing body mass. Having …

… evolution must be subject to powerful constraints, our results suggest that the evolutionary
diversification of size in terrestrial mammals over both geographical space and geological …

… terrestrial mammals exhibit dinal patterns in their body size, … direction of selection on body
size by considering costs alone. … direction of selection on body size are therefore not possible, …

… that extant mammals fill the maximum speed potential possible at any given body size.
Several species of extinct proboscideans significantly exceeded extant elephants in size (Garrutt …

… Omitting these two orders from the set of terrestrial mammals and recomputing a regression
line resulted in an intercept, slope, and sample size of 3.36, 0.322 t 0.002, and 618, …

… Using terrestrial mammals as an example, we review four patterns in the frequency
distributions of body sizes among species: (1) the modal and rightskewed distribution (on a …

… ABSTRACT Long-bone scaling has been analyzed in a large number of terrestrial mammals
for which body masses were known. Earlier proposals that geometric or elastic similarity are …