Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles

CT Griffin, MR Stocker, C Colleary… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology forms the most fundamental level of data in vertebrate palaeontology because it
is through interpretations of morphology that taxa are identified, creating the basis for broad …

Whole‐body endothermy: ancient, homologous and widespread among the ancestors of mammals, birds and crocodylians

G Grigg, J Nowack, JEPW Bicudo, NC Bal… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The whole‐body (tachymetabolic) endothermy seen in modern birds and mammals is long
held to have evolved independently in each group, a reasonable assumption when it was …

[BOOK][B] The microstructure of dinosaur bone

A Chinsamy-Turan - 2005 - press.jhu.edu
For millions of years, clues to the biology of dinosaurs lie locked within the microscopic
structure of their bones. Here one of the world's leading experts on fossil bone …

Anatomy of a mass extinction: sedimentological and taphonomic evidence for drought-induced die-offs at the Permo-Triassic boundary in the main Karoo Basin, South …

RMH Smith, J Botha-Brink - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2014 - Elsevier
The southern part of the Karoo Basin of South Africa contains a near complete stratigraphic
record of the Permo-Triassic boundary (PTB). Isotope-and magneto-stratigraphy confirm that …

Seasonal bone growth and physiology in endotherms shed light on dinosaur physiology

M Köhler, N Marín-Moratalla, X Jordana, R Aanes - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Cyclical growth leaves marks in bone tissue that are in the forefront of discussions about
physiologies of extinct vertebrates. Ectotherms show pronounced annual cycles of growth …

[PDF][PDF] Woven bone overview: structural classification based on its integral role in developmental, repair and pathological bone formation throughout vertebrate groups

F Shapiro, JY Wu - Eur Cell Mater, 2019 - ecmjournal.org
Cortical bone development is characterised by initial formation of woven bone followed by
deposition of lamellar bone on the woven scaffold. This occurs in normal bone formation as …

Assessing a relationship between bone microstructure and growth rate: a fluorescent labelling study in the king penguin chick (Aptenodytes patagonicus)

E de Margerie, JP Robin, D Verrier… - Journal of …, 2004 - journals.biologists.com
Microstructure–function relationships remain poorly understood in primary bone tissues. The
relationship between bone growth rate and bone tissue type, although documented in some …

Assessing dinosaur growth patterns: a microscopic revolution

GM Erickson - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2005 - cell.com
Some of the longest standing questions in dinosaur paleontology pertain to their
development. Did dinosaurs grow at slow rates similar to extant reptiles or rapidly similar to …

Growth in small dinosaurs and pterosaurs: the evolution of archosaurian growth strategies

K Padian, JR Horner, A De Ricqlès - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Histological evidence of the bones of pterosaurs and dinosaurs indicates that the typically
large forms of these groups grew at rates more comparable to those of birds and mammals …

Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries

K Curry Rogers, RN Martínez, C Colombi, RR Rogers… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Dinosauria debuted on Earth's stage in the aftermath of the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction
Event, and survived two other Triassic extinction intervals to eventually dominate terrestrial …