1st Edition
Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology
Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology summarizes decades of research into the biology and biological meaning of hard tissues, in both living and extinct vertebrates. In addition to outlining anatomical diversity, it provides fundamental phylogenetic and evolutionary contexts for interpretation. An international team of leading authorities review the impact of ontogeny, mechanics, and environment in relation to bone and dental tissues. Synthesizing current advances in the biological problems of growth, metabolism, evolution, ecology, and behavior, this comprehensive and authoritative volume is built upon a foundation of concepts and technology generated over the past fifty years.
Foreword
Contributors
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
1. Paleohistology: An Historical – Bibliographical Introduction
Armand J. de Ricqlès
SECTION II: MORPHOLOGY AND HISTOLOGY OF THE SKELETON
2. An Overview of the Embryonic Development of the Bony Skeleton
Vivian de Buffrénil and Alexandra Quilhac
3. The Vertebrate Skeleton: A Brief Introduction
Michel Laurin, Alexandra Quilhac and Vivian de Buffrénil
Methodological Focus A: The New Scalpel: Basic Aspects of CT-Scan Imaging
Damien Germain and Sandrine Ladevèze
4. Microanatomical Features of Bones and Their Basic Measurement
Vivian de Buffrénil, Eli Amson, Alexandra Quilhac, Dennis Voeten and Michel Laurin
Methodological Focus B: Basic Aspects of 3D Histomorphometry
Eli Amson and Damien Germain
5. Bone Cells and Organic Matrix
Louise Zylberberg
6. Current Concepts of the Mineralization of Type I Collagen in Vertebrate Tissues
William J. Landis, Tengteng Tang and Robin DiFeo Childs
7. An Overview of Cartilage Histology
Alexandra Quilhac
Methodological Focus C: Virtual (Paleo-)Histology Through Synchrotron Imaging
Sophie Sanchez, Dennis F. A. E. Voeten, Damien Germain and Vincent Fernandez
8. Bone Tissue Types: A Brief Account of Currently Used Categories
Vivian de Buffrénil and Alexandra Quilhac
Methodological Focus D: FIB-SEM Dual-Beam Microscopy for Three-Dimensional Ultrastructural Imaging of Skeletal Tissues
Natalie Reznikov and Katya Rechav
SECTION III: DYNAMIC PROCESSES IN OSSEOUS FORMATIONS
9. Basic Processes in Bone Growth
Vivian de Buffrénil and Alexandra Quilhac
10. Accretion Rate and Histological Features of Bone
Vivian de Buffrénil, Alexandra Quilhac and Jorge Cubo
11. Bone Remodeling
Vivian de Buffrénil and Alexandra Quilhac
12. Remarks on Metaplastic Processes in the Skeleton
Vivian de Buffrénil and Louise Zylberberg
SECTION IV: TEETH
13. Histology of Dental Hard Tissues
Alan Boyde and Timothy G. Bromage
SECTION V: PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY OF SKELETAL TISSUES
14. Introduction
Michel Laurin
15. Finned Vertebrates
Jorge Mondéjar-Fernández and Philippe Janvier
16. Early Tetrapodomorphs
Sophie Sanchez, François Clarac, Michel Laurin and Armand de Ricqlès
17. Lissamphibia
Vivian de Buffrénil and Michel Laurin
18. Early Amniotes and Their Close Relatives
Aurore Canoville, Michel Laurin and Armand de Ricqlès
19. Testudines
Torsten M. Scheyer and Ignacio A. Cerda
20. Lepidosauria
Vivian de Buffrénil and Alexandra Houssaye
21. Sauropterygia: Placodontia
Torsten M. Scheyer and Nicole Klein
22. Sauropterygia: Nothosauria and Pachypleurosauria
Torsten M. Scheyer, Alexandra Houssaye and Nicole Klein
23. Sauropterygia: Histology of Plesiosauria
P. Martin Sander and Tanja Wintrich
24. Ichthyosauria
P. Martin Sander
25. Archosauromorpha: From Early Diapsids to Archosaurs
Armand de Ricqlès, Vivian de Buffrénil and Michel Laurin
26. Archosauromorpha: The Crocodylomorpha
Vivian de Buffrénil, Michel Laurin and Stéphane Jouve
27. Archosauromorpha: Avemetatarsalia – Dinosaurs and Their Relatives
Kevin Padian and Holly N. Woodward
28. Nonmammalian Synapsids
Jennifer Botha and Adam Huttenlocker
29. Diversity of Bone Microstructure in Mammals
Vivian de Buffrénil, Christian de Muizon, Maïténa Dumont, Michel Laurin and Olivier Lambert
SECTION VI: INTEGRATIVE QUESTIONS
30. Phylogenetic Signal in Bone Histology
Jorge Cubo, Lucas J. Legendre and Michel Laurin
31. Cyclical Growth and Skeletochronology
Vivian de Buffrénil, Alexandra Quilhac and Jacques Castanet
32. Aging and Senescence Processes in the Skeleton
Catherine Bergot and Vivian de Buffrénil
33. Basic Principles and Methodologies in Measuring Bone Biomechanics
Russell P. Main
34. Interpreting Mechanical Function in Extant and Fossil Long Bones
Russell P. Main, Erin L.R. Simons and Andrew H. Lee
35. Bone Microanatomy and Lifestyle in Tetrapods
Aurore Canoville, Vivian de Buffrénil and Michel Laurin
36. Bone Histology and the Adaptation to Aquatic Life in Tetrapods
Alexandra Houssaye and Vivian de Buffrénil
37. Bone Histology and Thermal Physiology
Jorge Cubo, Adam Huttenlocker, Lucas J. Legendre, Chloé Olivier and Armand de Ricqlès
38. Bone Ornamentation: Deciphering the Functional Meaning of an Enigmatic Feature
François Clarac
39. The Histology of Skeletal Tissues as a Tool in Paleoanthropological and Archaeological Investigations
Ariane Burke and Michelle S. M. Drapeau
40. A Methodological Renaissance to Advance Perennial Issues in Vertebrate Paleohistology
Alexandra Houssaye, Donald Davesne and Aurore Canoville
Extended Table of Contents
Biography
Vivian de Buffrénil received a double university degree: history, through a master’s degree, specialized in the history of sciences (Paris 1972), and biology, through a PhD (Paris, 1980) as well as a “thèe d’éat” (Paris 1990). His professional career began in 1982 as a “maîre de conferences” at the Musém National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, where he remained until 1986. Since the beginning, Buffréil’s research activity has been related to comparative bone histology and paleohistology in extant and extinct mammals, reptiles and amphibians. About one hundred scientific articles were published on this subject. In parallel, Buffrénil took an active part in international programs led by CITES and FAO (two UN institutions) on the conservation of exploited reptiles, especially African monitor lizards and crocodiles and produced many expert reports.
Louise Zylberberg received her university degrees at Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique with a double curriculum in biology and biochemistry. She defended her doctoral thesis in histology there in 1968. Her career began as a researcher at the CNRS (1961) and she continued as “directrice de recherche” (1977) until her retirement (2001). She is still active as “emeritus directrice de recherche”. Her research has focused on comparisons of the results obtained with conventional histology and more specialized ultrastructural techniques. Since joining the “Formations squelettiques” team in 1980, she has applied these techniques to the study of mineralized tissues of the skeleton of extant and extinct species including reptiles, amphibians and “fishes”. She is also familiar with immunological techniques and comparative histological and cytological analyses which have revealed the wide variety of skeletal tissues and possible relationships between these various tissues during development and during evolution. She has published about two hundred articles.
Kevin Padian is Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Curator at the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or co-author of dozens of peer reviewed scientific journal articles and editor/co-editor of nearly a dozen books.
Armand de Ricqlès got his university degrees in Paris with a double concenration in biology and earth sciences. He started his career at the Sciences Faculty of the University of Paris (1961-70) in comparative anatomy and histology, then at the University of Paris VII Denis Diderot (1970-95) where he defended his doctoral thesis in Paleohistology (1973) and got a full professorship in Evolutionary Biology (1983). There he developed a research team, "formations squeletiques," that became famous in developing the comparative histology of bone. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1995 he was elected Professor at the prestigious Collège de France (Paris) as the Chair of "Historical Biology and Evolutionism" until 2010. During his career his interests in research and teaching, as well as popularization of science, have covered the fields of zoology, ecology, vertebrate paleontology, comparative anatomy and histology, phylogenetic systematics and, especially, the paleohistology of tetrapod vertebrates, a research field that he has largely expanded and introduced in several countries. Still currently active in this field, he has published several hundred papers in scientific research and popularization.
"… the most ambitious and comprehensive survey of bone paleohistology, designed to be relevant to those working on extant species too. There is no other book on the subject anywhere close to it in its broad scope.
It is wonderful to see a field that flourishes based on new information and careful consideration of the biology and taphonomy of the evidence.
This book hopefully stimulates by its sheer size and scope ..."
Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra in Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, v. 141, 2022
"The texts … are very good, of course, but the illustrations are outstanding. There is so much information presented … that a proper summary of their contents would be a book in itself. … the greatest value of the book comes from the sheer number of photographs and other images of thin sections of different bone tissues …"
James Farlow in Priscum e-newsletter of the Paleontological Society, Feb 2023.
