NHMUK PV R5937, “The Archbishop”, cervical vertebra S (probably C7).A.Reconstruction of right lateral view with neural spine, prezygapophysis, diapophysis, parapophysus, condyle and cervical rib restored. Most anatomical features are as in the reconstruction of Cervical V: only unique elements...
Somehow I had overlooked the Dystylosaurus cast on all of my previous visits to DJ, which is a shame, because the cast is easy to pick up, flip over, and manipulate. Very much unlike the actual fossil, which combines the charming attributes, shared with many other sauropod vertebrae, of ...
Next cabinet going around clockwise has these dorsal vertebrae and a couple of broken neural spine tops. The vertebra on the left is the one shown in lateral view at the top of this post. A tibia and a fibula. This is where it gets a little weird. I measured the other fibula, not ...
I recently read a couple of research papers where the researcher used “radiological imaging” to determine the neutral position of the cervical vertebrae. The result was a gently downward curving neck beginning at the pectoral girdle, with the skull only 2 meters off the ground. (I agree with...
SV-POW! … All sauropod vertebrae, except when we're talking about Open Access. ISSN 3033-3695 If I could dissect a sauropod… September 12, 2024 Luke Horton asked in acomment on a recent post: Given the chance to examine a titanosaur cadaver with your hypothetical army of anatomists, wh...
(It happens that my sequences are the aspect ratios of the cotyles of consecutive vertebrae, but that’s not important: whatever metric we land on should work for any sequences.) Taylor 2015: Figure 8. Cervical vertebrae 4 (left) and 6 (right) of Giraffatitan brancai lectotype MB.R....
A terminology section of which “wedged vertebrae” is just one of ten sub-sections, including a crucial discussion of different interpretation of what ONP means. All the information about the actual specimens the work is based on. All the meat of the methods, including how the specimens were...
hand experiences; Neural spine bifurcation in sauropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation: ontogenetic and phylogenetic implications; The Anatomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of “Pelorosaurus” becklesii (Neosauropoda, Macronaria) from the Early Cretaceous of England; The Moral Dimensions of Open). ...
with that stuff. But we know (these journals make no secret of it) that they reject 90% of submissions without even reviewing them, and it would likely just have been a waste of our time and effort to lobotomise our eight-pager down to three and reformat with the ultra-dumb numbered-...
And now, the punchline. You may be wondering why, when a new sauropod has been announced, I didn’t lead with a nice image of one of the vertebrae? After all, are we not Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week? It’s because thereareno images of the vertebra. There are no images of...