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Quantifying the effect of intervertebral cartilage on neutral posture in the necks of sauropod dinosaurs

Attempts to reconstruct the neutral neck posture of sauropod dinosaurs, or indeed any tetrapod, are doomed to failure when based only on the geometry of the bony cervical vertebrae. The thickness of the articular cartilage between the centra of adjacent vertebrae affects posture. It extends (raises)...

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Autor principal: Taylor, Michael P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277489/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25551027
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.712