This zip file contains finite element (FE) models of the extant herpestid Herpestes javanicus.

Specimen: American Museum of Natural History, Department of Mammalogy 101655

Number of models: 6 (left and right low, medium, high resolution)

Format: Strand7 2.3.7 or 2.4.6 (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.

Related citation with additional models: Zhijie Jack Tseng, John J. Flynn, Convergence analysis of a finite element skull model of Herpestes javanicus (Carnivora, Mammalia): Implications for robust comparative inferences of biomechanical function, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume 365, 21 January 2015, Pages 112-148, ISSN 0022-5193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.10.002.

Note: the coding "B###k" (where each #=single digit number) refers to the approximate number of tetrahedral elements ("bricks") in each respective model, in units of thousands of elements (k).

Prepared by Z. Jack Tseng on 7 January 2015.