Histology and postural change during the growth of the ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Qi ^a,b   Benton, Michael J ^a   Sullivan, Corwin ^b   Martin Sander, P ^c   Xu, Xing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DINOSAUR; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; ONTOGENY; SPECIES; AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY POSTURE; BODY SIZE; BONE; CHINA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIMB; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION; ARTICLE;

CERATOPSIA; DINOSAURIA; PSITTACOSAURUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BONE AND BONES; CHINA; DINOSAURS; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; POSTURE;

EID: 84891595531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3079     Document Type: Article

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