Histological bone structure of Lower Cretaceous dinosaurs from southwest Istria (Croatia)

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 741-749

  Kozaric Z ^a   Sparica M ^b   Bajraktarevic Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b Institute of Geology   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

?Lower Barremian; Croatia; Dinosaur bones; Palaeofauna; Palaeohistology; Upper Hauterivian

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA;

BONE STRUCTURE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; PALAEOHISTOLOGY;

CROATIA, ISTRIA;

EID: 0030436602     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.1996.0039     Document Type: Article

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