Thoracic epaxial muscles in living archosaurs and ornithopod dinosaurs

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 782-793

  Organ, Christopher Lee ^a,b,c  

^a Museum of the Rockies   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archosaur; Axial; Dinosaur; Epaxial; Ornithischian; Ornithopod; Ossified tendon

Indexed keywords

ALLIGATOR; ARCHOSAUR; BACK MUSCLE; BIRD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DINOSAUR; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ORNITHOPOD; OSSIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TENDON; THORAX; TURKEY (BIRD);

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BIRDS; DINOSAURS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THORACIC WALL;

AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); DINOSAURIA; HADROSAURIDAE; IGUANODONTIDAE; ORNITHOPODA; PODICIPEDIDAE; SAURIA; THORACICA;

EID: 33745750968     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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