On the Size and Flight Diversity of Giant Pterosaurs, the Use of Birds as Pterosaur Analogues and Comments on Pterosaur Flightlessness

Mark P. Witton; Michael B. Habib

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013982

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On the Size and Flight Diversity of Giant Pterosaurs, the Use of Birds as Pterosaur Analogues and Comments on Pterosaur Flightlessness

Mark P. Witton ,

* E-mail: mark.witton@port.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
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Michael B. Habib

Affiliation Department of Sciences, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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On the Size and Flight Diversity of Giant Pterosaurs, the Use of Birds as Pterosaur Analogues and Comments on Pterosaur Flightlessness

Mark P. Witton,
Michael B. Habib

Published: November 15, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013982

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Posted by MHabib on 01 Dec 2010 at 19:08 GMT

The authors would like to note that funding for part of the study reported in the manuscript was provided by the Jurassic Foundation. This information was inadvertently omitted from the original paper.

--MBH

No competing interests declared.

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