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Walking with Dinosaurs: studying locomotion in Australian sauropods Ada Klinkhamer PhD candidate Supervisors: A/Prof Stephen Wroe Dr Paul McDonald Dr Stephen Poropat
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Walking with Dinosaurs: studying locomotion in Australian sauropods

Ada KlinkhamerPhD candidate

Supervisors:A/Prof Stephen WroeDr Paul McDonaldDr Stephen Poropat

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Jurassic Park 3: 2001

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How did sauropod dinosaurs move?

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Diamantinasaurus matildae (‘Matilda’)

Hocknull et al. 2009PLoS One

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You can’t move without muscles

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CT and MRI scan of saltwater crocodile Digital dissection using Mimics software

Physical dissection of crocodile

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SIMM (Software for Interactive Musculoskeletal Modelling)

Tyrannosaurus rexHutchinson et al. 2005

PaleobiologyOstrich

Hutchinson et al. 2015PeerJ

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Digital data collection

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What can this tell us?

• Mobility, speed and hind limb rearing

• Muscle forces – which muscles worked when during movement and how this affected the shape of ‘Matilda’s’ bones

• What kind of behaviours ‘Matilda’ regularly performed

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Acknowledgements

• Armidale Radiology for CT and MRI scans on the saltwater crocodile

• Koorana Crocodile Farm (Rockhampton, QLD) for providing the crocodile specimen

• Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum (Winton, QLD) for access to sauropod material

• Mt Isa Hospital for CT scanning sauropod material

• David ‘Rex’ Mitchell for assistance with the crocodile gross dissection

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Questions?


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