• DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0082668
Corpus ID: 15332762

More than One Way of Being a Moa: Differences in Leg Bone Robustness Map Divergent Evolutionary Trajectories in Dinornithidae and Emeidae (Dinornithiformes)

@article{Brassey2013MoreTO,
  title={More than One Way of Being a Moa: Differences in Leg Bone Robustness Map Divergent Evolutionary Trajectories in Dinornithidae and Emeidae (Dinornithiformes)},
  author={C. Brassey and R. Holdaway and Abigail G. Packham and J. Ann{\'e} and P. L. Manning and W. Sellers},
  journal={PLoS ONE},
  year={2013},
  volume={8}
}

• C. Brassey, R. Holdaway, +3 authors W. Sellers
• Published 2013
• Biology, Medicine
• PLoS ONE

The extinct moa of New Zealand included three families (Megalapterygidae; Dinornithidae; Emeidae) of flightless palaeognath bird, ranging in mass from <15 kg to >200 kg. They are perceived to have evolved extremely robust leg bones, yet current estimates of body mass have very wide confidence intervals. Without reliable estimators of mass, the extent to which dinornithid and emeid hindlimbs were more robust than modern species remains unclear. Using the convex hull volumetric-based method on CT… Expand

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