Perinatal Primate Limb Bone Morphology and Adult Locomotion Data

An .RData file containing measurements of perinatal limb bone length, cross-sectional geometry, and elastic modulus for primates and tree shrews. The dataset includes metadata on adult intermembral index and leaping frequency for each species. It was authored by Angela Mossor and last updated on 2026-04-15.

Use Cases

• Predict adult locomotor repertoire based on perinatal bone morphology features.
• Analyze correlations between bone elastic modulus and leaping frequency.
• Model the relationship between limb bone cross-sectional geometry and intermembral index.

Strengths

• Includes multiple biomechanical measurements (length, cross-sectional geometry, elastic modulus) for each specimen.
• Combines perinatal morphology data with adult behavioral metadata (intermembral index, leaping frequency).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small at 15.9 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, requiring manual inspection after download.
• Data may reflect taxonomic bias inherent to the selected primate and tree shrew species.

Provenance

Source

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-15 21:46:11