Growth curve of Aetosauroides scagliai casamiquela 1960 (pseudosuchia: Aetosauria) inferred from osteoderm histology

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 379, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 413-423

  Taborda, Jeremías R A ^a,b   Cerda, Ignacio A ^a,c   Desojo, Julia B ^a,b  

^a Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE RÍO NEGRO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; TETRAPOD; TYPE SPECIMEN;

EID: 84887566307     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP379.19     Document Type: Article

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