On dinosaur growth

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 675-697

  Erickson, Gregory M ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Evolution; Growth curves; Histology; Physiology

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

EVOLUTION; GROWTH CURVES; LARGE MAMMALS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; DINOSAUR; GROWTH RATE; SURVIVORSHIP;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); DINOSAURIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84902192253     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060313-054858     Document Type: Review

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