This zip file contains finite element (FE) models of the extant ursid Ursus arctos.

Specimen: National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) USNM 82003

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: Slater GJ, Figueirido B, Louis L, Yang P, Van Valkenburgh B (2010) Biomechanical Consequences of Rapid Evolution in the Polar Bear Lineage. PLoS ONE 5(11): e13870. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013870

Prepared by Z. Jack Tseng on 7 January 2015.