Pathologic bone tissues in a Turkey vulture and a nonavian dinosaur: Implications for interpreting endosteal bone and radial fibrolamellar bone in fossil dinosaurs

Anatomical Record

Volumn 292, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1478-1484

  Chinsamy, Anusuya ^a   Tumarkin Deratzian, Allison ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypertrophic osteopathy; Medullary bone; Nonavian dinosaurs; Osteopetrosis; Pathological bone; Radial fibrolamellar bone

Indexed keywords

ALBERS SCHOENBERG DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; BONE MARROW; BONE STRUCTURE; BONE TISSUE; DINOSAUR; FEMALE; FOSSIL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERTROPHY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PERIOSTEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BONE AND BONES; DINOSAURS; FEMALE; FOSSILS; FRACTURES, BONE; OSTEOPETROSIS;

AVES; CATHARTES; CATHARTES AURA; DINOSAURIA;

EID: 73249137126     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20991     Document Type: Article

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