Paleomass for R-bracketing body volume of marine vertebrates with 3D models.

ABSTRACT: Body mass is arguably the most important characteristic of an organism, yet it is often not available in biological samples that have been skeletonized, liquid-preserved, or fossilized. The lack of information is especially problematic for fossil species, for which individuals with body mass information are not available anywhere. Multiple methods are available for estimating the body mass of fossil terrestrial vertebrates but those for their marine counterparts are limited. Paleomass is a software tool for estimating the body mass of marine vertebrates from their orthogonal silhouettes through bracketing. It generates a set of two 3D models from these silhouettes, assuming superelliptical body cross-sections with different exponent values. By setting the exponents appropriately, it is pos

SUBMITTER: Motani R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10460563 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature