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A Nomenclature for Vertebral Fossae in Sauropods and Other Saurischian Dinosaurs
BACKGROUND: The axial skeleton of extinct saurischian dinosaurs (i.e., theropods, sauropodomorphs), like living birds, was pneumatized by epithelial outpocketings of the respiratory system. Pneumatic signatures in the vertebral column of fossil saurischians include complex branching chambers within...
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Public Library of Science
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3046170/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21386963 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017114 |