The fast and the frugal: Divergent locomotory strategies drive limb lengthening in theropod dinosaurs

• T. Alexander Dececchi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alex.dececchi@mtmc.edu

  Affiliation Division of Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, Mount Marty College, Yankton, South Dakota, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7972-3866

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• Aleksandra M. Mloszewska ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aleksandra M. Mloszewska, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., Michael B. Habib, Hans C. E. Larsson

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent Researcher, Sudbury, ON, Canada

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• Thomas R. Holtz Jr. ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aleksandra M. Mloszewska, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., Michael B. Habib, Hans C. E. Larsson

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Michael B. Habib ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aleksandra M. Mloszewska, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., Michael B. Habib, Hans C. E. Larsson

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Integrative Anatomical Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Hans C. E. Larsson

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aleksandra M. Mloszewska, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., Michael B. Habib, Hans C. E. Larsson

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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