thinking it could plausibly belong to a sauropod, after Andy countered every point I raised in my “Saurophaganaxis a theropod after all” push with photos of the same characters in the vertebrae of juvenile sauropods, which led to me agreeing with Andy and the other authors that designatingS...
now that I know that the anchor-shaped sections are so close to the end of the centrum, because almost all vertebrae get round near the ends. That said, the anchor-shaped sections are anchor-shaped because the pneumatic
The Chinese sturgeon, an important endemism of the Yangtze River, belongs to ‘the most critically endangered group of species’ worldwide, with overfishing and habitat destruction being the main drivers towards extinction. Newly obtained microchemical comparisons between animals and water from different ...
I’m tired, and the talks were uniformly excellent, so I’ll just go with this: every one of you gave me new facts to ponder and new ideas to think about. It was probably the most consistently interesting day of talks I’ve seen in my life. ...
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...
Me with all five of the most posterior presacral vertebrae, here seen in right posterolateral view. “But tell me, Mike”, you ask: “Do they have a model skull based on that ofGiraffatitanhidden away in collections?” Why, yes! Yes, they do!
Two partial cervical vertebrae, with part of a little one in between them, and a sectioned rib up on the shelf. I didn’t try to measure these through the glass either, but I’d estimate that each of the cervical centra is a meter and change in length, and both were a few cm lon...
(Visitors to AMNH: you can see the rest of AMNH 222 under the feet of the hunched-overAllosaurus) AMNH 339, Bone Cabin Quarry: 20th to 40th caudal vertebrae. LIGHT BLUE AMNH 592, Bone Cabin Quarry: metatarsals of the right hind foot. VIOLET ...
On the left, we have the bones of the lower jaw, palate and braincase, with the first three and a half vertebrae at the bottom. At the top is the mandible, which is intact on the left side but has separate articular, angular and surangular on the right; between the mandibles are ...
Images of vertebra from Gilmore (1936:plate XXIV). At the bottom, the vertebrae are composed in a horizontal posture. Superimposed, the same vertebrae are shown inclined by the additional extension angles indicated in Table 1. If the slightly sub-horizontal osteological neutral pose of Stevens ...