Bone thin sections of six Alvarezsaurian dinosaurs

This dataset includes histological thin sections from long bones of six different Alvarezsaurian dinosaurs and labelled primary and secondary osteons. Methods The dataset was collected based on specimens in the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleonanthropology, Beijing, China. Six alvarezsaurian dinosaur taxa are included as following: Taxa Sampled bones Image number Bannykus wulantensis Fibula 18 Haplocheirus sollers Tibia 28 Qiupanykus zhangi Metatarsal 36 Shishugounykus inexpectus Fibula 29 Xixianykus zhangi Femur, Metatarsal 28+22 Xiyunykus pengi Fibula 13 The image was taken under normal light microscope with resolution of 2576×1936. Labels of primary and secondary were manually labled by all authors.