Gross internal structure and microstructure of plesiosaur limb bones from the late Jurassic, central Spitsbergen

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 92, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 285-309

  Liebe, Lene ^a   Hurum, Jørn Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DINOSAUR; JURASSIC; METABOLISM; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; ONTOGENY; PALEONTOLOGY; SKELETON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 84867687213     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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