skeletochronology
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editskeletochronology (uncountable)
- The estimation of the age of skeletal remains by observation of growth rings in bones
- 2015 July 9, “First Reported Cases of Biomechanically Adaptive Bone Modeling in Non-Avian Dinosaurs”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Minimum age of Maiasaura individuals was determined by counting the number of annually deposited lines of arrested growth (see [10 –12 ] for descriptions of skeletochronology methods).