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  • noun Plural form of gastrolith.

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  • In many cases, these stones which are called gastroliths, survive as fossils.

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  • Most of the dinosaur fossils found today are mineralized bones, but they also include footprints, tracks, eggs, skin impressions, stomach stones (known as gastroliths), and fossilized feces (known as coprolites).

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  • The specimen is inferred to represent a five-year-old individual and to be at a young adult ontogenetic stage, based on a combination of histological features including narrower outermost zones, dense haversian bone, extensive and multiple endosteal bone depositional events and absence of an external fundamental system. d, Close up of the gastroliths scale bar, 2 cm.

    The Panda's Thumb: Development Archives 2010

  • The specimen is inferred to represent a five-year-old individual and to be at a young adult ontogenetic stage, based on a combination of histological features including narrower outermost zones, dense haversian bone, extensive and multiple endosteal bone depositional events and absence of an external fundamental system. d, Close up of the gastroliths scale bar, 2 cm.

    The Panda's Thumb: Transitional Fossils Archives 2010

  • And since the gastroliths move through the Transit system this is under my jurisdiction.

    You Want Evopunk? I'll Give You Evopunk. Sean Craven 2009

  • Duke was getting the gastroliths out of the saddleback.

    You Want Evopunk? I'll Give You Evopunk. Sean Craven 2009

  • And since the gastroliths move through the Transit system this is under my jurisdiction.

    Archive 2009-07-05 Sean Craven 2009

  • The thing is that the hunters who go out after the gastroliths?

    Archive 2009-07-05 Sean Craven 2009

  • The thing is that the hunters who go out after the gastroliths?

    You Want Evopunk? I'll Give You Evopunk. Sean Craven 2009

  • Duke was getting the gastroliths out of the saddleback.

    Archive 2009-07-05 Sean Craven 2009

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