Osteo-histology provides information on age, growth strategies, and lifestyles of both recent and ancient animals. This study deals with the histology of fossilized bone from three groups of tetrapods – sea turtles, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs – all secondarily adapted to marine life, but with rather different bone microstructures. As a result of extensive vascularization (i.e. osteoporosis), ichthyosaur bone is light, which may have contributed to increased manoeuvrability in open waters. This structure is comparable to that of most extant whales and dolphins. Plesiosaur bone, on the other hand, is very dense (i.e. pachyosteosclerotic) and therefore heavy. This extra weight may have been used for ballasting in a near-shore, shallow marine...
Background: During their evolution in the Late Cretaceous, mosasauroids attained a worldwide distrib...
Placodontia, an enigmatic group of durophagous and in part heavily armoured animals, were members of...
BackgroundIchthyosaurs are Mesozoic reptiles considered as active swimmers highly adapted to a fully...
Protostega gigas was a large sea turtle that lived in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of...
Modern sea turtle long bone osteohistology has been surprisingly well-studied, as it is used to unde...
Marine reptiles constitute a diverse group of secondarily aquatic tetrapods that have inhabited the ...
Histological studies have established relationships between the microstructural features of bone, th...
The lifestyle of extinct tetrapods is often difficult to assess when clear morphological adaptations...
Ichthyosaurs are Mesozoic reptiles considered as active swimmers highly adapted to a fully open-mari...
Fig. 5 Comparative schematic of the organization of bone tissue in two Carboniferous stem tetrapods,...
Ichthyosaurians (Ichthyosauria) are a major clade of secondarily aquatic marine tetrapods that occup...
BACKGROUND: During their evolution in the Late Cretaceous, mosasauroids attained a worldwide distrib...
International audienceAquatic reptiles are very diversified in the fossil record. The description an...
BACKGROUND: Ichthyosaurs are Mesozoic reptiles considered as active swimmers highly adapted to a ful...
""Several studies investigated how changes in bone density are related to the evolution of complex b...
Background: During their evolution in the Late Cretaceous, mosasauroids attained a worldwide distrib...
Placodontia, an enigmatic group of durophagous and in part heavily armoured animals, were members of...
BackgroundIchthyosaurs are Mesozoic reptiles considered as active swimmers highly adapted to a fully...
Protostega gigas was a large sea turtle that lived in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway of...
Modern sea turtle long bone osteohistology has been surprisingly well-studied, as it is used to unde...
Marine reptiles constitute a diverse group of secondarily aquatic tetrapods that have inhabited the ...
Histological studies have established relationships between the microstructural features of bone, th...
The lifestyle of extinct tetrapods is often difficult to assess when clear morphological adaptations...
Ichthyosaurs are Mesozoic reptiles considered as active swimmers highly adapted to a fully open-mari...
Fig. 5 Comparative schematic of the organization of bone tissue in two Carboniferous stem tetrapods,...
Ichthyosaurians (Ichthyosauria) are a major clade of secondarily aquatic marine tetrapods that occup...
BACKGROUND: During their evolution in the Late Cretaceous, mosasauroids attained a worldwide distrib...
International audienceAquatic reptiles are very diversified in the fossil record. The description an...
BACKGROUND: Ichthyosaurs are Mesozoic reptiles considered as active swimmers highly adapted to a ful...
""Several studies investigated how changes in bone density are related to the evolution of complex b...
Background: During their evolution in the Late Cretaceous, mosasauroids attained a worldwide distrib...
Placodontia, an enigmatic group of durophagous and in part heavily armoured animals, were members of...
BackgroundIchthyosaurs are Mesozoic reptiles considered as active swimmers highly adapted to a fully...