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Data from: Biogenic origin of secondary eggshell units in dinosaur eggshells elucidates lost biomineralization process in maniraptoran dinosaurs
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Data from: Ten more years of discovery: revisiting the quality of the sauropodomorph dinosaur fossil record
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How to build a dinosaur: musculoskeletal modelling and simulation of locomotor biomechanics in extinct animals
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The coevolution of rostral keratin cover and toothrow distribution in Mesozoic dinosaurs
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Data from: The megaherbivore gap after the non-avian dinosaur extinctions modified trait evolution and diversification of tropical palms
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Data from: Palaeontology meets metacommunity ecology: The Maastricthian dinosaur fossil record of North America as a case study
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Softening the steps to gigantism in sauropod dinosaurs through the evolution of a pedal pad
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Data from: More than one way to be a giant: convergence and disparity in the hip joints of saurischian dinosaurs
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Data from: Novel track morphotypes from new tracksites indicate increased Middle Jurassic dinosaur diversity on the Isle of Skye Scotland
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Data from: Disparate feeding mechanics between two hadrosaurid dinosaurs support the potential for resource partitioning
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Data from: Diverging trends in erythrocyte size elucidate cardiovascular evolution in stem dinosaurs and crocodilians
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Electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, & X-ray diffraction data from: Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification”
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Data from: The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan
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Canada's first known dinosaurs: Palaeontology and collecting history of upper Cretaceous vertebrates in Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1874-1889
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The evolution of femoral morphology in giant non-avian theropod dinosaurs
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Data from: A new Middle Jurassic lagoon margin assemblage of theropod and sauropod dinosaur trackways from the Isle of Skye, Scotland
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Data from: Morphology and distribution of scales, dermal ossifications, and other non-feather integumentary structures in non-avialan theropod dinosaurs
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Box 2 in Assessing dinosaur growth patterns: a microscopic revolution
Box 2. Assessing dinosaur longevity using the principle of Amprino's rule A less commonly utilized aging technique for dinosaurs and basal birds uses a principle called 'Amprino's rule' (sensu [11,22]). The formative rate of tissue types from living animals is used to estimate lengths of time for bone development and thus determine longevity. This aging technique is the only tested means to age animals in cases where growth lines were not deposited throughout life. The method has seen limited application in assessing dinosaur [11,22,31] and basal bird [11,36] longevity. In Figure Ia, the bones of an ostrich (Struthio camelus) were labeled by periodically administering fluorochromic chemical labels to establish the formative rate of the bone tissue (marked yellow and red; photo courtesy of Kristina Curry Rogers). Note that the values shown here are hypothetical and intended only to illustrate the methodology. The formation rate is divided into the amount of bone that formed during development (measured radially; Figure Ib) to reveal longevity.
Box 1 in Assessing dinosaur growth patterns: a microscopic revolution
Box 1. Assessing dinosaur longevity from growth-line counts Making growth curves for dinosaurs requires estimations of longevity for various individuals throughout development. To do this, osteohistologists sample bones from specimens spanning juvenile through adult developmental stages. The bones that are utilized show minimal remodeling (i.e. replacement or loss of the original bone during life because of metabolic, reproductive, biomechanical, or skeletal repair considerations [9]) and therefore provide a nearly complete record of development. Traditionally, dinosaur researchers have used the femur, but other bones have been shown to be equally or more efficacious in some taxa. For example, multi-element sampling in tyrannosaurs has shown (Figure Ia) that the bones shown in blue [pubis, fibula, ribs, gastralia (i.e. belly ribs) and some post-orbital skull bones] work better than the femur in these animals [12,24]. The bones are sectioned transversely at mid-shaft using a slow-speed saw fitted with a diamond-tipped blade (Figure Ib). The sections (Figure Ic) are then affixed to glass petrographic slides and sanded/polished for viewing with polarized and/or reflected microscopy. On very large specimens for which making entire cross-sectional slides is difficult, researchers polish the cut faces of the bones to reveal 'polished lines' that reflect hardness differences between individual growth lines [20,23,31]. Alternatively, Sanders has developed a method whereby a diamond-tipped drill coring-bit is used to extract a cylinder of bone from which polished-line preparations or petrographic slides can be made [23]. Aging is conducted by making total growth line counts within elements [28]. Here (Figure Ic), a thin-sectioned, dorsal rib from TYrannosaurus rex (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, FMNH PR 2081) shows growth lines (arrows) that were counted to age this specimen. Each line represents a period of slowed and/or potential stoppage in tissue deposition [9]. The highly vascularized regions between the rings are known as zones and represent periods of active growth [8,9]. The inset box denotes a region late in development composed of tightly stacked growth rings known as an external fundamental system that indicates when growth slowed precipitously [22,27]. At this point in development, somatic maturity and full-adult size was reached. (Figure I redrawn and reproduced with permission from [12]. Scale bar=10 mm.)
Fig. 9 in Fused and vaulted nasals of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs: Implications for cranial strength and feeding mechanics
Fig. 9. Comparison of theropod nasal strengths at multiple transverse sections. Horizontal (Iy) and vertical (Iz) second moments of area of nasal cross−sections of Allosaurus fragilis (upper two graphs) and tyrannosaurids (lower two graphs). Second moments of area are proportional to lateral (Iy) and vertical (Iz) bending strengths. X−axes of graphs show relative position of slices along the long axes of the bones: 0.0 is posterior and 1.0 anterior.
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