Histology and growth pattern of the pachy-osteosclerotic premaxillae of the fossil beaked whale Aporotus recurvirostris (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti);Histologie et mode de croissance des prémaxillaires hyperplasiques du Ziphiidae fossile Aporotus recurvirostris (Mammalia, Cetacea, Odontoceti)

Geobios

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-56

  de Buffrénil, Vivian ^a   Lambert, Olivier ^a,b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bone; Functional interpretation; Growth; Histology; Rostrum; Ziphiidae

Indexed keywords

BONE; FOSSIL RECORD; GROWTH RATE; HISTOLOGY; WHALE;

CETACEA; MAMMALIA; MESOPLODON DENSIROSTRIS; ODONTOCETI; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 79952101235     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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