Variation in osteocytes morphology vs bone type in turtle shell and their exceptional preservation from the Jurassic to the present.

@article{Cadena2012VariationIO,
  title={Variation in osteocytes morphology vs bone type in turtle shell and their exceptional preservation from the Jurassic to the present.},
  author={Edwin Alberto Cadena and Mary Higby Schweitzer},
  journal={Bone},
  year={2012},
  volume={51 3},
  pages={
          614-20
        }
}
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