Modeling Dragons: Using linked mechanistic physiological and microclimate models to explore environmental, physiological, and morphological constraints on the early evolution of dinosaurs
Fig 10
Tcore, ME, and %shade heatmaps for Coelophysis (uninsulated).
Heatmaps representing the hourly results across the modeled year the three dominant variables: microclimate (hot, moderate, and cold), RMR (low, moderate, and high), CTR (broad, moderate, and narrow) for an uninsulated Coelophysis. See Fig 9 for key. Two most likely scenarios for survivability are outlined in bright green, the three edge conditions are outlined in orange; all other conditions are considered to be non-viable.