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elsewhere in taxa such as Neovenator.
Other characteristic features include opisthocoelous neck
vertebrae and compsognathid-like teeth.
Megaraptorans were originally...
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Edward Drinker (1878). "A new
opisthocoelous dinosaur".
American Naturalist. 12 (6): 406–408. doi:10.1086/272127...
- axis, was
especially short. The
remaining neck
vertebrae were
weakly opisthocoelous, i.e. with a
convex front of the
vertebral body and a
concave rear....
- and
posteriorly convex. They are
found in
frogs and
modern reptiles.
Opisthocoelous vertebrae are the opposite,
possessing anterior convexity and posterior...
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alveoli and a
premaxillary body
taller than long in
lateral aspect,
opisthocoelous cervical vertebrae with
neural spines more than 1.9
times the height...
- (75%). The neck
consisted of
thirteen cervical vertebrae,
which were
opisthocoelous (convex at the
front and
hollow at the back),
forming ball-and-socket...
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included only
Titanosaurus and Argyrosaurus,
united by
procoelous caudals,
opisthocoelous presacrals, a lack of
pleurocoels and open chevrons.
Following this...
- coosified, and
rather consistent in length. The
centra were
mainly opisthocoelous (concave on the
posterior facet and
convex on the
anterior one) and...
- vertebrae" in Latin.
Dinosaurs portal Cope,
Edward Drinker (1878). "A new
opisthocoelous dinosaur".
American Naturalist. 12 (6): 406–408. doi:10.1086/272127...
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ranging from very
weakly concave to flat (platycoelous) or
convex (
opisthocoelous).
Another notable feature of
elaphrosaurine cervical vertebrae is that...
