Bone histology in Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki (ornithischia: Iguanodontia) - variation, growth, and implications

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Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hübner, Tom R ^a  

^a Landesmuseum Hannover   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE AGE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE EXAMINATION; BONE GROWTH; BONE STRUCTURE; BONE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DINOSAUR; DYSALOTOSAURUS LETTOWVORBECKI; FEMUR; FIBULA; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GROWTH CURVE; HISTOLOGY; HUMERUS; LAMELLAR BODY; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL MATURITY; TIBIA; AGE; AGE DETERMINATION; ANATOMY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDIVIDUALITY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

DINOSAURIA; IGUANODONTIA; ORNITHISCHIA; ORNITHOPODA; VERTEBRATA;

AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGE FACTORS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DEVELOPMENT; DINOSAURS; FEMUR; FOSSILS; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; INDIVIDUALITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 84855418338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029958     Document Type: Article

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