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Dinosaurian growth rates and bird origins

Kevin Padian, Armand J. de Ricqlès and John R. Horner

Nature 412, 405-408(26 July 2001)

doi:10.1038/35086500

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Figure 1

Cladogram of archosaurian taxa, after various sources, with subadult long-bone growth rates.

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Figure 2

Comparative growth histories of the hadrosaurian dinosaur Maiasaura11 and the giant Cretaceous crocodile Deinosuchus, with 'typical' crocodiles for comparison15.

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Figure 3

Transverse mid-shaft thin-sections of cortical bone of representative theropod taxa, showing the evolution of tissue from basal theropods to crown-group birds.

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Figure 4

Cladogram of representative birds and other theropod dinosaurs, using crocodiles as an outgroup, to show the evolution of the growth strategies suggested by histological patterns, sampled in all taxa here except Archaeopteryx.

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