A virtual world of paleontology

JA Cunningham, IA Rahman, S Lautenschlager… - Trends in ecology & …, 2014 - cell.com
Computer-aided visualization and analysis of fossils has revolutionized the study of extinct
organisms. Novel techniques allow fossils to be characterized in three dimensions and in …

Coherent methods in the X-ray sciences

KA Nugent - Advances in Physics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
X-ray sources are developing rapidly and their coherent output is growing correspondingly.
The increased coherent flux from modern X-ray sources is being matched with an …

[图书][B] Microcomputed tomography: methodology and applications

SR Stock - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
MicroComputed Tomography has become the gold standard for studying 3D microscopic
structures nondestructively, and this book provides up-to-date coverage of the modality. The …

Dental evidence for ontogenetic differences between modern humans and Neanderthals

TM Smith, P Tafforeau, DJ Reid… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Humans have an unusual life history, with an early weaning age, long childhood, late first
reproduction, short interbirth intervals, and long lifespan. In contrast, great apes wean later …

[HTML][HTML] The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring

MAD During, J Smit, DFAE Voeten, C Berruyer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction around 66 million years ago was
triggered by the Chicxulub asteroid impact on the present-day Yucatán Peninsula 1, 2. This …

Aetiology, incidence and morphology of the C‐shaped root canal system and its impact on clinical endodontics

A Kato, A Ziegler, N Higuchi, K Nakata… - International …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The C‐shaped root canal constitutes an unusual root morphology that can be found
primarily in mandibular second permanent molars. Due to the complexity of their structure, C …

Three-dimensional synchrotron virtual paleohistology: a new insight into the world of fossil bone microstructures

S Sanchez, PE Ahlberg, KM Trinajstic… - Microscopy and …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The recent developments of phase-contrast synchrotron imaging techniques have been of
great interest for paleontologists, providing three-dimensional (3D) tomographic images of …

The developmental clock of dental enamel: a test for the periodicity of prism cross‐striations in modern humans and an evaluation of the most likely sources of error in …

D Antoine, S Hillson, MC Dean - Journal of anatomy, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Dental tissues contain regular microscopic structures believed to result from periodic
variations in the secretion of matrix by enamel‐and dentine‐forming cells. Counts of these …

Lamellar bone is an incremental tissue reconciling enamel rhythms, body size, and organismal life history

TG Bromage, RS Lacruz, R Hogg, HM Goldman… - Calcified tissue …, 2009 - Springer
Mammalian enamel formation is periodic, including fluctuations attributable to the daily
biological clock as well as longer-period oscillations that enigmatically correlate with body …

Synchrotron scanning sheds new light on Lumkuia fuzzi (Therapsida, Cynodontia) from the Middle Triassic of South Africa and its phylogenetic placement

J Benoit, M Nxumalo, LA Norton, V Fernandez… - Journal of African Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lumkuia fuzzi is a small non-mammalian cynodont from the Middle Triassic of South Africa. It
has traditionally been phylogenetically identified as a basal Probainognathia, but some …