Some aspects of the historical development of paleohistology in vertebrate paleontology are briefly reviewed, with emphasis on studies of fossil amphibian and reptile bone tissues, as compared with thoses of extant forms. A consideration of bone tissue diversity and of its likely determinism lead to its value as a direct tool in systematics beeing questioned in both extant and extinct forms. Rather, it is suggested that its variations may be used as a biological recorder of ontogenies sensu lato, offering data on species or populations‐specific life history traits and even hints at their larger scale evolution among extinct lineages.
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