MASSTIMATE (version 2.0-1)

OH2012: Body Mass Estimates Using O'Gorman & Hone (2012)

Description

This function is meant for dinosaur mass estimation from femoral length as presented by O'Gorman & Hone (2012)

Usage

OH2012(FL, eqn, data=NULL)

Arguments

FL

a value or vector representing femoral length (in mm)

eqn

a character specifying the desired prediction equation (see Details)

data

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

Value

OH2012

A vector representing the mass estimate(s) in log grams and grams

Details

Possible estimation equations (eqn =) include: "theropods", "sauropods", and "ornithischians". See O'Gorman & Hone (2012) for specific details and Campione & Evans (2020) for evaluations of the models. 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

O'Gorman, E. J. and Hone, D. W. E. (2012) Body Size Distribution of the Dinosaurs. PLoS ONE 7(12): e51925.

Campione, N. E. and Evans, D. C. (2020) The accuracy and precisions of body mass estimation in non-avian dinosaurs. Biological Reviews.

See Also

cQE QE