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overall heavy torso would impede such a behavior. Nonetheless, similarly graviportal creatures have much thicker long bones. In 2016, zoologist Markus Lambertz...

preservation). Applying this method likewise gives results suggesting a heavyset graviportal animal, with calculated values being similar to those of moas and elephant...

the same general form as a hippopotamus. They have a graviportal skeleton, with four stubby legs and four toes on each foot, supporting a portly frame...

non-sauropod ("prosauropod") sauropodomorphs. Its bones are robust and it had a graviportal limb arrangement, a key character trait of basal sauropodomorphs. While...

long footprint. As massive quadrupeds, sauropods developed specialized "graviportal" (weight-bearing) limbs. The hind feet were broad, and retained three...

bodies with short tails and legs, and an hourglass-shaped skull with a long snout.: 3, 19  Their skeletal structures are graviportal, adapted to carrying their...

very large semi-aquatic mammals, and their barrel-shaped bodies have graviportal skeletal structures, adapted to carrying their enormous weight, and their...

convergent with those of elephants and sauropod dinosaurs with their likewise graviportal (heavy and slow moving) builds. Unlike such animals, which tend to lengthen...

Initially bipedal, as their size increased they evolved a four-legged graviportal gait adapted only to walking slowly on land, like elephants. The early...

Callovian-Oxfordian, from China much larger species are known, with long, "graviportal" (adapted for moving only in a slow manner on land due to a high body...

glyptodontines like Neosclerocalyptus and Doedicurus. Glyptodon had graviportal (weight-bearing), short limbs that are very similar to those in other...

1007/s00015-010-0024-2. S2CID 132746786. Calculating the speed of Quadrupedal graviportal animals by Ruben Molina-Perez, Asier Larramendi Rajewski, Genevieve (May...

carapace, making the pelvis entirely immobile. Glyptotherium was very graviportal and had short limbs that are very similar to those in other glyptodonts...

They instead suggested that the dinosaur fit the criteria of being a graviportal (or slow-moving) biped. An ungual phalanx measuring 21 millimeters (0...

Romania) shows several primitive features. Its femur shows that it was a graviportal form rather than cursorial, not adapted for running. Due to fragmentary...

C.; Billet, G.; Cornette, R.; Houssaye, A. (2022). "Adaptation to graviportality in Rhinocerotoidea? An investigation through the long bone shape variation...

adaptation for open environments and long strides and a greater degree of graviportality, than in the case of Notiomastodon. This is also reflected in the build...

Walter Coombs argued based on their limb anatomy that stegosaurs were graviportal animals. 1979 P.M. Yadagiri and Krishnan Ayyasami described the new genus...