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Secular Changes in the Postcranial Skeleton of American Whites

Human Biology, 2016
Secular change in height has been extensively investigated, but size and shape of the postcranial skeleton much less so. The availability of large, documented collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century skeletons makes it possible to examine changes in skeletal structure over the past 150 years. We examined secular changes in long bone lengths and
Richard L, Jantz, Lee Meadows, Jantz, Joanne L, Devlin   +2 more
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Postcranial skeleton of multituberculate mammal Catopsbaatar

, 2009
We describe an incomplete postcranial skeleton of Catopsbaatar catopsaloides from the ?late Campanian red beds of Hermiin Tsav I, in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. The skeleton is fragmentary and the preservation of bone surface does not permit reconstruction of the musculature.
Hurum, Jørn H., Kielan-Jaworowska, Zofia   +1 more
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The anthropoid postcranial axial skeleton: Comments on development, variation, and evolution [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 2004
AbstractWithin‐species phenotypic variation is the raw material on which natural selection acts to shape evolutionary change, and understanding more about the developmental genetics of intraspecific as well as interspecific phenotypic variation is an important component of the Evo‐Devo agenda.
Pilbeam, David
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Allodaposuchus palustris sp. nov. from the upper cretaceous of Fumanya (South-Eastern Pyrenees, Iberian Peninsula): systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the enigmatic allodaposuchian crocodylians. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
The controversial European genus Allodaposuchus is currently composed of two species (A. precedens, A. subjuniperus) and it has been traditionally considered a basal eusuchian clade of crocodylomorphs. In the present work, the new species A. palustris is
Alejandro Blanco, Eduardo Puértolas-Pascual, Josep Marmi, Bernat Vila, Albert G Sellés   +4 more
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The complex characteristics of anthropological materials of the late 17th – beginning 18th centuries from the square named after M.Yu. Lermontov in Penza

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Медицинские науки, 2023
Background. The study of the of the dental system and the postcranial skeleton of people which lived in distant historical epochs make understand how exogenous conditions affect the physique, constitution and other specificity of the human body ...
D.S. Ikonnikov, O.V. Kalmin, O.O. Kalmin
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Reassessment of the evidence for postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in Triassic archosaurs, and the early evolution of the avian respiratory system. [PDF]

, 2012
Uniquely among extant vertebrates, birds possess complex respiratory systems characterised by the combination of small, rigid lungs, extensive pulmonary air sacs that possess diverticula that invade (pneumatise) the postcranial skeleton, unidirectional ...
Barrett, Paul M., David J. Gower (175487), Butler, Richard J.; id_orcid, Gower, David J., Richard J. Butler (172299), Butler, Richard J., Richard J Butler, David J Gower, Paul M. Barrett (162813), Paul M Barrett   +9 more
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The postcranial skeleton of monolophosaurus jiangi (dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle Jurassic of Xinjiang, China, and a review of Middle Jurassic Chinese theropods [PDF]

, 2010
The Middle Jurassic was a critical time in the evolution of theropod dinosaurs, highlighted by the origination and radiation of the large-bodied and morphologically diverse Tetanurae.
Benson, R. B. J., Currie, PJ, Brusatte, S. L., Brusatte, SL, Benson, R.B.J., Xi-Jin, Z, Xi-Jin, Z., Currie, P.J., Benson, RBJ, Brusatte, S.L.; id_orcid, Currie, P. J., Zhao, X. -J.   +11 more
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Functional anatomy and disparity of the postcranial skeleton of African mole-rats (Bathyergidae)

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The burrowing adaptations of the appendicular system of African mole-rats (Bathyergidae) have been comparatively less investigated than their cranial adaptations.
Germán Montoya-Sanhueza, Germán Montoya-Sanhueza, Nigel C. Bennett, Anusuya Chinsamy, Radim Šumbera   +4 more
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New insights into the postcranial anatomy of Paludidraco multidentatus (Sauropterygia, Simosauridae), from the Late Triassic of Spain [PDF]

Fossil Record
Sauropterygia is a diverse clade of aquatic reptiles spanning from the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) to the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian). Complete or almost complete skeletons are known for placodonts, pachypleurosaurs, nothosaurs and pistosauroids (
Alberto Cabezuelo-Hernández, Carlos de Miguel Chaves, Francisco Ortega, Adán Pérez-García   +3 more
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A partial skeleton of the fossil great ape Hispanopithecus laietanus from Can Feu and the mosaic evolution of crown-hominoid positional behaviors. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
The extinct dryopithecine Hispanopithecus (Primates: Hominidae), from the Late Miocene of Europe, is the oldest fossil great ape displaying an orthograde body plan coupled with unambiguous suspensory adaptations.
David M Alba, Sergio Almécija, Isaac Casanovas-Vilar, Josep M Méndez, Salvador Moyà-Solà   +4 more
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