Archaeopteryx feathers and bone chemistry fully revealed via synchrotron imaging

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

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 9060-9065

  Bergmann, U ^a   Morton, R W ^b   Manning, P L ^c,d   Sellers, W I ^c   Farrar, S ^e   Huntley, K G ^b   Wogelius, R A ^c   Larson, P ^c,e  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Children of the Middle Waters Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e Black Hills Institute of Geological Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Trace elements; X ray absorption spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

COPPER; PHOSPHORUS 32; SULFUR; ZINC;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; ARTICLE; BONE; DINOSAUR; FEATHER; FOSSIL; IMAGING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; SYNCHROTRON; SYNCHROTRON RAPID SCANNING X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BONE AND BONES; FEATHERS; FOSSILS; METALS, HEAVY; PHOSPHORUS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SULFUR; SYNCHROTRONS;

ARCHAEOPTERYX; AVES; DINOSAURIA;

EID: 77952726977     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001569107     Document Type: Article

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