A new tool for determining degrees of mineralization in fossil amphibian skeletons: The example of the Late Palaeozoic branchiosaurid Apateon from the Autun Basin, France;Un nouvel outil pour la détermination du degré de minéralisation du squelette chez les amphibiens fossiles: l'exemple du branchiosauride Apateon du Paléozoïque supérieur du Bassin d'Autun, France

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 9, Issue 6-7, 2010, Pages 311-317

  Sanchez, Sophie ^a,b   De Ploëg, Gaël ^c   Clément, Gaël ^d   Ahlberg, Per Erik ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c Centre permanent d'initiatives pour l'environnement   (France)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Branchiosaurids; Late Palaeozoic; Ontogeny; Ossification sequence; Palaeoecology; Skeletochronology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; AMPHIBIAN; ANATOMY; CALCIFICATION; CHRONOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; MINERALIZATION; ONTOGENY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PERMIAN; SKELETON; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; X-RAY;

FRANCE; GERMANY;

AMPHIBIA; APATEON; BRANCHIOSAURIDAE; TETRAPODA;

EID: 78649450898     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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