Body reconstruction and size estimation of plesiosaurs Department of Mathematics, Northwest University, Xi’an, China DOI 10.7717/peerj.21146 Academic Editor Kenneth De Baets Subject Areas Computational Biology, Evolutionary Studies, Mathematical Biology, Paleontology, Zoology Keywords Ribcage restoration, Plesiosaurs, Body size estimation, Cross-sectional method, Biological scaling, Skeletal reconstruction, Volumetric-density, Marine reptiles, Regression, Body mass Copyright © Licence This is...