Mineralized soft-tissue structure and chemistry in a mummified hadrosaur from the Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota (USA)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1672, 2009, Pages 3429-3437

  Manning, Phillip L ^a   Morris, Peter M ^a   McMahon, Adam ^a   Jones, Emrys ^a   Gize, Andy ^a   Macquaker, Joe H S ^a   Wolff, George ^b   Thompson, Anu ^b   Marshall, Jim ^b   Taylor, Kevin G ^c   Lyson, Tyler ^d   Gaskell, Simon ^a   Reamtong, Onrapak ^a   Sellers, William I ^a   Van Dongen, Bart E ^a   Buckley, Mike ^a,e   Wogelius, Roy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hadrosaur; Hell creek; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; APATITE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEMENT; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AMINO ACID; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEMENT; DINOSAUR; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMAGE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSTRUCTURE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PALEONTOLOGY; PRESERVATION; SILICA; SKIN; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DINOSAUR; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; EPIDERMIS; HAVERSIAN CANAL; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; SURVIVAL; TENDON; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TISSUE STRUCTURE; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

DINOSAURIA;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; NORTH DAKOTA; SKIN; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TENDONS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 70349619404     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0812     Document Type: Article

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