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Fig. 1. Length-diameter scaling patterns of long bones from three groups of
mammals: carnivorans (blue line: Bertram
and Biewener, 1990), bovids (black line:
McMahon, 1975a) and
ceratomorphs (red line: Prothero and
Sereno, 1982). Data for carnivorans exhibit differential allometry
with smaller families scaling more closely to isometry and larger families
closer to elastic similarity (reflected by light blue dashed lines). The
larger carnivorans match the pattern for bovids, which scale with elastic
similarity. Ceratomorphs scale with stronger allometry, close to stress
similarity. Larger-sized bovids also exhibit this pattern. Adapted from
Bertram and Biewener (1990,
Fig. 5). Lines are based on
least-squares regressions.
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