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- noun Plural form of
sauropod .
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Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in sauropods and its implications for mass estimates.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in sauropods and its implications for mass estimates.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part II Darren Naish 2006
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The award stems from his excellent 2005 paper ‘Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in sauropods and its implications for mass estimates’: required reading here at Tetrapod Zoology Towers (free pdf available here).
Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006
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A nomenclature for vertebral laminae in sauropods and other saurischian dinosaurs.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part II Darren Naish 2006
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In birds, bony openings on the sides of the vertebrae also lead into large internal chambers, just as they do in sauropods, and given that the bony openings and internal chambers of bird vertebrae house air sacs, they almost certainly did so in sauropod vertebrae as well.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The award stems from his excellent 2005 paper ‘Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in sauropods and its implications for mass estimates’: required reading here at Tetrapod Zoology Towers (free pdf available here).
Matt Wedel: officially, a bastard Darren Naish 2006
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A nomenclature for vertebral laminae in sauropods and other saurischian dinosaurs.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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In birds, bony openings on the sides of the vertebrae also lead into large internal chambers, just as they do in sauropods, and given that the bony openings and internal chambers of bird vertebrae house air sacs, they almost certainly did so in sauropod vertebrae as well.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part II Darren Naish 2006
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Yikes, does this mean that I’m more ‘interested’ in sauropods and birds – and even squamates – than in non-avian theropods?
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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Yikes, does this mean that I’m more ‘interested’ in sauropods and birds – and even squamates – than in non-avian theropods?
Happy first birthday Tetrapod Zoology (part II) Darren Naish 2007
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