Ontogenetic stages in the long bone histology of sauropod dinosaurs

N Klein, M Sander - Paleobiology, 2008 - cambridge.org
… of sauropod dinosaurs. Their length is a good proxy for body length and body mass, and their
histology is … assessment of histologic changes in growth series of several sauropod taxa, …

Bone histology indicates insular dwarfism in a new Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur

P Martin Sander, O Mateus, T Laven, N Knötschke - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
… of basal macronarian sauropod, Europasaurus holgeri gen. et sp. nov., and on the basis of
bone histology we show it to have been a dwarf species. The fossils, including excellent skull …

Sauropod bone histology and its implications for sauropod biology

PM Sander, N Klein, K Stein… - … of the sauropod dinosaurs …, 2011 - books.google.com
… zonal bone showing LAGs in the pelvis of a sauropod dinosaur … studies of sauropod long
bone histology reviewed above. … abundance of fibrolamellar bone tissue in long bones (Rimblot-…

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive radiation in sauropod dinosaurs: bone histology indicates rapid evolution of giant body size through acceleration

PM Sander, N Klein, E Buffetaut, G Cuny… - Organisms Diversity & …, 2004 - Elsevier
bone histology of the oldest sauropod dinosaur and, by comparing it histologically to numerous
Late Jurassic sauropods … very large body size of sauropod dinosaurs. The results may …

The three-front model: a developmental explanation of long bone diaphyseal histology of Sauropoda

J Mitchell, PM Sander - Biological Journal of the Linnean …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… these fundamental aspects of long bone diaphyseal histology at different growth stages. We
… long bones of the sauropod dinosaur Apatosaurus. The model describes the histology and …

Early growth dynamics of titanosaur sauropods inferred from bone histology

R González, IA Cerda, LS Filippi, L Salgado - Palaeogeography …, 2020 - Elsevier
Histological studies have proven to be a powerful tool for addressing sauropod paleobiology…
is to describe long bone histology (femur) in early juvenile titanosaur sauropods, to expand …

Bone histology of the titanosaur Lirainosaurus astibiae (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Latest Cretaceous of Spain

J Company - Naturwissenschaften, 2011 - Springer
… in detail the histology of Lirainosaurus long bones and determine the growth strategy by
which Lirainosaurus attained a modest body size with respect to other sauropod families. This …

Sauropod histology

KC Rogers, GM Erickson, KC Rogers… - The Sauropods …, 2005 - degruyter.com
… We first provide a primer on relevant bone histological patterns, followed by … bone histological
analysis for interpreting a wide range of paleobiological questions surrounding sauropods, …

Vascularised endosteal bone tissue in armoured sauropod dinosaurs

A Chinsamy, I Cerda, J Powell - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
… In conclusion, our study shows that the main criteria for the identification of medullary bone
in fossil taxa ie location, origin, histology (including extent of mineralisation and birefringence …

[HTML][HTML] Novel insight into the origin of the growth dynamics of sauropod dinosaurs

IA Cerda, A Chinsamy, D Pol, C Apaldetti, A Otero… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… For sauropod dinosaurs, we employ the criterion proposed … the basis of the identification of
histologic ontogenetic stages (HOS). … bone histology and the attainment of sexual and skeletal