Re: Dinosaur speed estimates

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geology.umd.edu>]

I would take any estimate of maximum running speeds based on morphology 
with amazingly huge chunks of salt. Actual animal performance is very 
hard to work out strictly from morphology.

On 2016-01-30 12:47, Poekilopleuron wrote:
> Good day!
>
> I would like to ask if there is a study (apart from Manning and
> Sellers, 2007) estimating maximum running speeds for a various kinds
> of dinosaurs (groups like sauropods, ceratopsians, ornithopods,
> large/small theropods, thyreophorans etc.) or if there are estimated
> values just for a well known taxa like Tyrannosaurus (about 30 km/h),
> Argentinosaurus (about 8 km/h), Struthiomimus (about 60 km/h) etc.? It
> would be interesting to have a comprehensive list of such a values
> estimated for a various taxa of dinosaurs. Thank you, in advance. Tom

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