Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a patagium: as, the patagial expansion of the integument.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the
patagium .
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Examples
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The recent discussion about pterosaur patagia inspired this simple, but I think effective, visual representation of many possibilities for patagial ? configurations.
Archive 2009-07-01 Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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The recent discussion about pterosaur patagia inspired this simple, but I think effective, visual representation of many possibilities for patagial ? configurations.
Life's Time Capsule: Pterosaur Gallery Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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While this pterosaur is incomplete, the patagial edge is continuous, smoothly concave, and grades neatly into the side of the tarsus (see images above: click on them for larger versions).
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Claims that the patagial margins preserved in the fossil actually represent cracks are utterly unconvincing.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Perhaps because it appears to have reasonable and easily understood character support and is exciting in contending that a complex and strongly modified bit of morphology – namely the bat wing, with its bizarre elongated fingers and patagial membranes – evolved independently more than once.
We flightless primates Darren Naish 2006
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Perhaps because it appears to have reasonable and easily understood character support and is exciting in contending that a complex and strongly modified bit of morphology – namely the bat wing, with its bizarre elongated fingers and patagial membranes – evolved independently more than once.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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