Body size in mammalian paleobiology: estimation and biological implications

Abstract

1. Introduction J. Damuth and B. MacFadden Part I. The Biological Significance of Mammalian Body Size: 2. The physiological significance of body size B. K. McNab 3. The behavioral/ecological significance of body size J. F. Eisenberg 4. The functional anatomy of body weight T. Grand 5. Evolutionary strategies and body size in a guild of mammals V. C. Maiorana 6. The cotton rat model R. A. Martin Part II. The Estimation of Mammalian Body Mass: 7. Methods and problems in estimating body size in fossil primates W. Jungers 8. Structural allometry of the lower limb bones in the Anthropoidea C. Ruff 9. Skeletal and dental predictors of body weight in carnivores B. Van Valkenburgh 10. Estimates of body size for insular dwarf mammoths V. L. Roth 11. Skeletal dimensions of ungulates as predictors of body weight K. M. Scott 12. Correlation of body weight in ungulates with cranio-dental variables C. Janis 13. Problems with using tooth size to estimate the body size of fossil mammals M. Fortelius 14. Problems in estimating body masses of archaic fossil ungulates using dental measurements J. Damuth 15. Body-size estimates and size distribution of ungulates (Mammalia) from the Late Miocene Love Bone Bed, Florida B. J. MacFadden and R. C. Hulbert 16. Summary: discussion and recommendations for body-mass estimation J. Damuth and B. J. MacFadden Appendices: data and equations for body-mass estimation.