Specialization of bone structure in Pachyvaranus crassispondylus Arambourg, 1952, an aquatic squamate from the Late Cretaceous of the southern Tethyan margin

Lethaia

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-69

  de Buffrénil, Vivian ^a   Bardet, Nathalie ^b   Pereda Suberbiola, Xabier ^c   Bouya, Bâdi ^d  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^d Centre Minier de Khouribga   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Bone histology; Late Cretaceous; Morocco; Osteosclerosis; Pachyostosis; Pachyvaranus; Palaeoecology; Phosphates; Squamata

Indexed keywords

BONE; CRETACEOUS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MAASTRICHTIAN; MORPHOGENESIS; PALEOECOLOGY; RESORPTION; SPECIALIZATION; VERTEBRATE;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; VARANIDAE;

EID: 39149109139     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2007.00042.x     Document Type: Article

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