skeletochronology en · NOUN
Etymology
From skeleto- + chronology.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The estimation of the age of skeletal remains by observation of growth rings in bones
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).
2015 July 9, “First Reported Cases of Biomechanically Adaptive Bone Modeling in Non-Avian Dinosaurs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: