Preparation and sectioning of specimens

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 55-160

  Lamm, Ellen Thérèse ^a  

^a Museum of the Rockies   (United States)

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