Measurement of the Cross-Sectional Area of the Nasal Passages of Nine Species of Modern Odontoceti with Implications for Comparative Physiology and the Paleophysiology of the Dinosauria

• Main Author: Katz, Eric Paul
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: PDXScholar 1999
• Subjects: Nasal fossa > Size; Toothed whales; Dinosaurs; Biology; Fossa; toothed whales
• Online Access: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2247; https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3249&context=open_access_etds

In search of evidence for or against the endothermic dinosaur hypothesis, a recent study by Ruben et al. (1996) revealed that endotherms tend to have larger nasal cross-sectional areas than ectotherms of the same mass. The reason offered for this observation was that larger nasal passages are needed...