Dinosaur paleohistology: review, trends and new avenues of investigation

In the mid-19th century, the discovery that bone microstructure in fossils could be preserved with fidelity provided a new avenue for understanding the evolution, function, and physiology of long extinct organisms. This resulted in the establishment of paleohistology as a subdiscipline of vertebrate...

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Main Authors: Alida M. Bailleul, Jingmai O’Connor, Mary H. Schweitzer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-09-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/7764.pdf