Allometric equations are often based on the body mass of an animal because body mass
determines many physiological functions. This should also hold for Brachiosaurus brancai …

Body mass and surface areas are important in several aspects for an organism living today.
Therefore, mass and surface determinations for extinct dinosaurs could be important for …

Body mass is an important determinant of most biological functions, and knowing the mass
of extinct animals is essential in order to learn about their biology. It was the aim of this …

Since the publication of an apparently gigantic sauropod vertebra from the Late Jurassic of
western North America in the late 1800s, the possibility that land animals grew to be as …

Body size is a crucial life history parameter for an organism. Therefore, mass estimation for
fossil species is important for many kinds of analyses. Several attempts have been made to …

To develop a widely applicable method to estimate body size in theropods, the scaling
relationship between skull length, body length, and body mass was investigated using 13 …

We use data from the literature to compare two statistical procedures for estimating mass (or
size) of quadrupedal dinosaurs and other extraordinarily large animals in extinct lineages …

Packard and colleagues investigate the prediction of the body mass of dinosaurs, using
allometric models, advocating parameter estimation via direct optimization of a least …

The heads of prosauropod and sauropod dinosaurs appear to be small, compared with
those of extant endothermic mammals. This has been considered inconsistent with the …

Allometric equations are often used to extrapolate traits in animals for which only body mass
estimates are known, such as dinosaurs. One important decision can be whether these …