Rethinking the nature of fibrolamellar bone: An integrative biological revision of sauropod plexiform bone formation

Biological Reviews

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 24-47

  Stein, Koen ^a   Prondvai, Edina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Collagen fibre orientation; Fibrolamellar bone; Growth rate; Osteocyte lacuna; Palaeohistology; Plexiform bone; Sauropod dinosaur; Section planes; Woven bone

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; LACUNA; SAUROPODA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BONE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; DINOSAUR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; BONE DEVELOPMENT; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS;

EID: 84891663906     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12041     Document Type: Article

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