This zip file contains finite element (FE) models of the extant hyaenid Crocuta crocuta.

Specimen: South African Museum, Zoology ZM 19469

Number of models: 2 (left and right)

Format: Strand7 version 2.3.7 (free viewer can be downloaded from http://www.strand7.com/html/viewer.htm)

Citation: Tseng ZJ and Flynn JF. 2015. Are cranial biomechanical simulation data linked to known diets in extant taxa? A method for applying diet-biomechanics linkage models to infer feeding capability of
extinct species
. PLOS ONE.

Model modified from: TSENG, Z. J. and STYNDER, D. (2011), Mosaic functionality in a transitional ecomorphology: skull biomechanics in stem Hyaeninae compared to modern South African carnivorans. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 102: 540–559. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01602.x

Prepared by Z. Jack Tseng on 7 January 2015.