R. J. Zhao

Body reconstruction and size estimation of plesiosaurs:enlightenment on the ribcage restoration of extinct amniotes in2D environments

This paper develops a method for estimating body volume and mass of plesiosaurs using skeletal reconstructions and volumetric-density approaches, finding trunk length and dorsal vertebrae dimensions as the best size proxies.

Estimating body volumes and surface areas of animalsfrom cross-sections

This paper introduces a 2D volumetric-density method for estimating body volume and surface area from cross-sections, achieving less than 2% error in all tested cases.