Table 2 in Diversity and taxonomy of the Late Triassic sauropodomorphs (Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha) stored in the Palaeontological Collection of Tübingen, Germany, historically referred to Plateosaurus

Table 2. Summary of the different types of preservations influenced by carbonate paedogenesis as outlined in Moser (2003).
TypeStructure of the boneDiagenesisDeformation1Cortical bone: flaked and crumbly, loosened and rounded. Medullary cavity: broken, intruded by fragments of cortical bone.Damage due to compression by load, biotic damage, and /or chemical dissolution. Carbonate encrustations are common on the cortical bone and dissolved cavities.None or widespread compression deformation.2Cortical bone: well preserved, with minor cracks.Pores and cavities are infilled with carbonates – small carbonate incrustations in the cortical bone.Unevenly deformed by compression (compressive and paedogenic).3Cortical bone: single and irregular cracks formed by concretions growing in the medullary cavity. Medullary cavity: deformed by concretions.Bones are structurally broken down into a small mosaic of fragments surrounded by carbonate nodules.In some places, the concretions grow outwards, deforming the bones. Some deformation is due to compression.4Bone looks like dark spots that are widely scattered and out of place.Chemically dissolved, partially or entirely, bone fragments surrounded by carbonate matrix.Protuberances and large cracks usually deform the cortical surface. Adjacent bones fused inside the same concretion and cannot be separated. Most of the deformation is paedogenic.