Dinosaur bones: Fossils or pseudomorphs? The pitfalls of physiology reconstruction from apatitic fossils

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 161-171

  Kolodny, Yehoshua ^a   Luz, Boaz ^a   Sander, Martin ^b   Clemens, W A ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

biomineralization; bones; diagenesis; dinosaurs; fossilization; oxygen isotopes; Vertebrata

Indexed keywords

BONE; DIAGENESIS; DINOSAUR; FOSSILIZATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN; THERMOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0030274246     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(96)00112-5     Document Type: Article

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