Long bone histology of sauropterygia from the lower muschelkalk of the Germanic basin provides unexpected implications for phylogeny

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Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Klein, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAROSAURUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRETACEOUS; CYMATOSAURUS; ENCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION; GROWTH RATE; HISTOLOGY; LONG BONE; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NOTHOSAURUS; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; REPTILE; SAUROPTERYGIA; TAXONOMY; TRIASSIC; ANIMAL; BONE; CLASSIFICATION;

ANISIA; REPTILIA; SAUROPTERYGIA;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES;

EID: 77955398279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011613     Document Type: Article

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