Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2005-12, Vol.310 (5755), p.1800-1802
2005
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Developmental Plasticity in the Life History of a Prosauropod Dinosaur
- Ist Teil von
- Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2005-12, Vol.310 (5755), p.1800-1802
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2005
- Quelle
- Science Online_科学在线
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Long-bone histology indicates that the most common early dinosaur, the prosauropod Plateosaurus engelhardti from the Upper Triassic of Central Europe, had variable life histories. Although Plateosaurus grew at the fast rates typical for dinosaurs, as indicated by fibrolamellar bone, qualitative (growth stop) and quantitative (growth-mark counts) features of its histology are poorly correlated with body size. Individual life histories of P. engelhardti were influenced by environmental factors, as in modern ectothermic reptiles, but not in mammals, birds, or other dinosaurs.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0036-8075eISSN: 1095-9203DOI: 10.1126/science.1120125Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_68902985
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Analysis, Animals, Biographies, Body Size, Body Temperature Regulation, Bone and Bones - anatomy & histology, Bone Development, Bones, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs - anatomy & histology, Dinosaurs - classification, Dinosaurs - growth & development, Dinosaurs - physiology, Environment, Environmental Influences, Female, Femur, Femur - anatomy & histology, Femur - growth & development, Fossils, Germany, Histology, Long bones, Male, Mammals, Paleontology, Plateosaurus engelhardti, Reptiles, Sex Characteristics, Specimens, Superplasticity, Switzerland