The femoral ontogeny and long bone histology of the Middle Triassic (?late Anisian) dinosauriformAsilisaurus kongweand implications for the growth of early dinosaurs

The ontogeny of early-diverging dinosauromorphs is poorly understood because few ontogenetic series from the same species-level taxon are known and what is available has not been extensively documented. The large numbers of skeletal elements of the silesaurid Asilisaurus kongwe recently recovered from Tanzania provide an opportunity to examine the ontogenetic trajectory of the earliest known member of Ornithodira and one of the closest relatives...