Why study the bone microstructure of fossil tetrapods?

Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods: Advancing Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-11

  Padian, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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