We present novel findings on sauropod bone histology that cast doubt on general
palaeohistological concepts concerning the true nature of woven bone in primary cortical …

Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology summarizes decades of research into the
biology and biological meaning of hard tissues, in both living and extinct vertebrates. In …

Pseudosuchia, one of the two main clades of Archosauria, is today only represented by
some 20 extant species, the crocodilians, representing only a fraction of its extinct diversity …

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 …

Fossil bone microanalyses reveal the ontogenetic histories of extinct tetrapods, but
incomplete fossil records often result in small sample sets lacking statistical strength. In …

After the end-Cretaceous extinction, placental mammals quickly diversified, occupied key
ecological niches, and increased in size,, but this last was not true of other therians. The …

Several histological studies have attempted to derive life history parameters of sauropod
dinosaurs. However, verification of sexual maturity and growth rate has been impeded by …

ABSTRACT The South African non-archosauriform archosauromorph Prolacerta and the
archosauriforms Proterosuchus, Erythrosuchus, and Euparkeria were important constituents …

As indicated by their highly vascularized fibrolamellar bone (but also by estimates from rare
growth marks and estimates from local bone tissue apposition rates), growth rates of …

Aquatic reptiles are very diversified in the fossil record. The description and pooling of
certain bone histological features (collagenous weave and vascular network) of the various …