Université de Fribourg

Preliminary observations on the bone histology of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian archosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis reveal fast growth with laminar fibrolamellar bone tissue

Klein, Nicole ; Foth, Christian ; Schoch, Rainer R.

In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2017, vol. 37, no. 4, p. e1333121

The bone tissue of femur, rib, and gastralia from three different individuals of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis from southern Germany is studied. The femoral bone tissue comprises laminar fibrolamellar bone tissue throughout and is stratified by three annual growth cycles, indicating that the individual died early in its fourth year of life, at which time it...

Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne

Carettochelyine turtle from the Neogene of Europe

Joyce, Walter G. ; Klein, Nicole

In: Copeia : official publication of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 2004, no. 2, p. 406