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SUBMITTER: Surmik D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6030318 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Surmik Dawid D Szczygielski Tomasz T Janiszewska Katarzyna K Rothschild Bruce M BM
Royal Society open science 20180606 6
An absence of ancient archaeological and palaeontological evidence of pneumonia contrasts with its recognition in the more recent archaeological record. We document an apparent infection-mediated periosteal reaction affecting the dorsal ribs in a Middle Triassic eosauropterygian historically referred to as '<i>Proneusticosaurus</i>' <i>silesiacus</i>. High-resolution X-ray microtomography and histological studies of the pathologically altered ribs revealed the presence of a continuous solid peri ...[more]