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Medullary bone in an Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird and discussion regarding its identification in fossils

Medullary bone is an ephemeral type of bone tissue, today found only in sexually mature female birds, that provides a calcium reservoir for eggshell formation. The presence of medullary bone-like tissues in extant birds, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs distantly related to birds shows that caution must be...

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Publicat a:Nat Commun
Autors principals: O’Connor, Jingmai, Erickson, Gregory M., Norell, Mark, Bailleul, Alida M., Hu, Han, Zhou, Zhonghe
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6281594/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30518763
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07621-z
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