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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PeerJ Inc.
2014-12-01
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/712.pdf |