Small body size and extreme cortical bone remodeling indicate phyletic dwarfism in Magyarosaurus dacus (Sauropoda: Titanosauria)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 9258-9263

  Stein, Koen ^a   Csiki, Zoltan ^b   Rogers, Kristina Curry ^c   Weishampel, David B ^d   Redelstorff, Ragna ^e   Carballido, Jose L ^a   Sander, P Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bone histology; Island fauna; Nanism; Sauropoda; Secondary osteon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY SIZE; BONE REMODELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; CRETACEOUS; DWARFISM; GROWTH RATE; LIMB; LONG BONE; MAGYAROSAURUS DACUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BONE AND BONES; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE REMODELING; DINOSAURS; DWARFISM; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; ROMANIA;

DINOSAURIA; MAMMALIA; SAUROPODA; TETRAPODA; TITANOSAURIA;

EID: 77952719615     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000781107     Document Type: Article

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