Remarkable preservation of undigested muscle tissue within a late cretaceous tyrannosaurid coprolite from Alberta, Canada

Palaios

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 286-294

  Chin, Karen ^a   Eberth, David A ^b   Schweitzer, Mary H ^c   Rando, Thomas A ^d   Sloboda, Wendy J ^b   Horner, John R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPROLITE; CRETACEOUS; SOFT TISSUE PRESERVATION; TAPHONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

CANADA;

TYRANNOSAURIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; CYTOLOGY; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; DINOSAUR; FECES; FOSSIL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HISTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALBERTA; ANIMALS; DIGESTIVE PHYSIOLOGY; DINOSAURS; FECES; FOSSILS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PALEONTOLOGY;

EID: 0038340267     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1669/0883-1351(2003)018<0286:RPOUMT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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