Super sizing the giants: First cartilage preservation at a sauropod dinosaur limb joint

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-65

  Schwarz, Daniela ^a   Wings, Oliver ^b   Meyer, Christian A ^a  

^a NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HISTOLOGY; LIMB;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA; SAUROPODOMORPHA;

EID: 33846254082     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492006-019     Document Type: Article

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