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- Leiopelmatidae are primitive to almost all other frogs in having nine amphicoelous vertebrae and a caudalipuboischiotibialis tail-wagging muscle in adults...
- compressive forces. Amphicoelous vertebra have centra with both ends concave. This shape is common in fish, where most motion is limited. Amphicoelous centra often...
- preserved. There are also two sacral vertebrae. The dorsal vertebrae are amphicoelous, while the cervical centra lack hypapophyses. The proatlas is an inverted...
- for the hindlimb, was relatively unimportant. The tail vertebrae were amphicoelous, the vertebral bodies on both ends being concave. Early species had long...
- which had as few as eleven cervical vertebrae. With early forms, the amphicoelous or amphiplat neck vertebrae bore double-headed neck ribs; later forms...
- into pleurocentra and intercentra. All members of Stereospondyli had amphicoelous centra composed only of the intercentra. Cope objected to von Zittel's...
- part of the body. The caudal vertebrae had centra that were slightly amphicoelous, meaning they were concave on both sides. A prominent feature of Ankylosaurus...
- tail-wagging muscles, cartilaginous inscriptional ribs, the presence of amphicoelous vertebrae, and nine presachral vertebrae (most frogs have eight). In...
- used to diagnose Elaphrosaurinae. Elaphrosaurine cervical vertebrae are amphicoelous, meaning that both their front and rear faces are concave, particularly...
- crocodiles may have. The tuatara spine is made up of hourgl****-shaped amphicoelous vertebrae, concave both before and behind. This is the usual condition...