The influence of plane of section on the identification of bone tissue types in amniotes with implications for paleophysiological inferences

The proportion of woven bone (WB) to parallel‐fibered bone has been extensively used to infer bone growth rates and resting metabolic rates of extinct organisms. The aim of this study is to test in a variety of amniotes how reliably WB content can be measured using transverse sections. For this, we analyzed femoral transverse mid‐diaphyseal thin sections of 14 extant and extinct taxa and the corresponding longitudinal sections for comparative...