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| Title |
Estimating Impact Forces of Tail Club Strikes by Ankylosaurid Dinosaurs
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2009
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0006738 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Victoria Megan Arbour |
| Abstract |
It has been assumed that the unusual tail club of ankylosaurid dinosaurs was used actively as a weapon, but the biological feasibility of this behaviour has not been examined in detail. Ankylosaurid tail clubs are composed of interlocking vertebrae, which form the handle, and large terminal osteoderms, which form the knob. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 45 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | 22% |
| Canada | 3 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 4% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 27 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 39 | 87% |
| Scientists | 5 | 11% |
| Unknown | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 88 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chile | 2 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Spain | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Argentina | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 78 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 17 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 20 | 23% |
| Unknown | 13 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 39 | 44% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 24 | 27% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Engineering | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 6 | 7% |
| Unknown | 12 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 161. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 May 2024.
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#260,978
of 25,942,066 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#3,763
of 226,456 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#584
of 106,195 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#9
of 531 outputs
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