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ex0523: Was Tyrannosaurus Rex Warm-Blooded?

Description

Data frame with measurements of oxygen isotopic composition of vertebrate bone phosphate (per mil deviations from SMOW) in 12 bones of a singe Tyrannosaurus rex specimen

Usage

ex0523

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 52 observations on the following 2 variables.

Oxygen

oxygen isotopic composition

Bone

a factor with levels "Bone1", "Bone2", …, "Bone12"

References

Barrick, R.E. and Showers, W.J. (1994). Thermophysiology of Tyrannosaurus rex: Evidence from Oxygen Isotopes, Science 265(5169): 222--224.

See Also

ex1120

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
str(ex0523)
# }

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