MASSTIMATE (version 1.2)

MCF2004: Body Mass Estimates Using Mazzetta et al. (2004)

Description

This function is meant for quadrupedal mass estimates (in particularly sauropod dinosaurs) and presently only estimates body mass based on the femoral circumference equation of Mazzetta et al. (2004) derived from volumetric reconstructions of sauropod dinosaurs

Usage

MCF2004(FC, data = NULL)

Arguments

FC

a value or vector representing femoral circumference (in mm)

data

an optional object of class = "data.frame" or class = "matrix"

Value

• MCF2004
  A numeric value or vector representing the mass estimate(s) in grams

Details

If a data object is specified, the mass estiamtes will be added as a column to the data.frame or matrix within that object.

References

Mazzetta, G. V., Christiansen, P. and Farina, R. A. (2004) Giants and bizzares: body size of some southern South American Cretaceous dinosaurs. Historical Biology, 16, 71-83.

See Also

QE quadrupeds MR AHR1985

Examples

##Quadrupedal dinosaurs
data(dinos)
MCF2004(dinos$FC, data = dinos)