Bone microstructure and the evolution of growth patterns in Permo-Triassic therocephalians (Amniota, Therapsida) of South Africa

Therocephalians were a speciose clade of nonmammalian therapsids whose ecological diversity and survivorship of the end-Permian mass extinction offer the potential to investigate the evolution of growth patterns across the clade and their underlying influences on post-extinction body size reductions...

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Published in:	PeerJ
Main Authors:	Adam K. Huttenlocker, Jennifer Botha-Brink
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	PeerJ Inc. 2014-04-01
Subjects:	End-Permian extinction Paleohistology Cortical vascularity Lilliput effect Synapsids Triassic
Online Access:	https://peerj.com/articles/325.pdf