Aging, Maturation and Growth of Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs as Deduced from Growth Curves Using Long Bone Histological Data: An Assessment of Methodological Constraints and Solutions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Griebeler, Eva Maria ^a   Klein, Nicole ^b   Sander, P Martin ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; APATOSAURUS; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY MASS; CAMARASURUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DINOSAUR; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HISTOLOGY; LONG BONE; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; PLATEOSAURUS ENGELHARDTI; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURITY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY SIZE; BONE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

APATOSAURUS; CAMARASAURUS; DINOSAURIA; DIPLODOCIDAE; EUHELOPODIDAE; MAMMALIA; PLATEOSAURUS; SAUROPODA; SAUROPODOMORPHA;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; BONE AND BONES; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84879241153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067012     Document Type: Article

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