- a pair of
large projections which act as neck
muscle attachments: the
basitubera (also
known as
basioccipital tubera or
basal tubera) The
paired exoccipitals...
-
basioccipital (rear
lower component of the braincase) was small, with
inset basitubera (vertical
plates connecting to neck muscles)
linked by a
transverse ridge...
- of Venaticosuchus, but the gap
between its
basipterygoid processes and
basitubera is less
acute than in that taxon. Dynamosuchus's
basipterygoid processes...
-
plates known as
basitubera jut
downwards and
slightly outwards from the rear
surface of the basioccipital. In
front of the
basitubera lies the parabasisphenoid...
- characteristics, or autapomorphies. The
first autapomorphy is the flat
shape of the
basitubera, an area at the base of the
skull in
front of its
attachment point with...
-
similar to
archosauriforms more
basal than euparkeriids. Nevertheless, the
basitubera of the
parabasisphenoid are
separated from each other, like
derived archosauriforms...
- was
fairly typical. The
basioccipital was broad, with poorly-developed
basitubera and kidney-shaped
occipital condyle, and the
exoccipitals do not meet...
- "Machaeroprosopus" zunii, Protome,
Smilosuchus and Pseudopalatus,
Pravusuchus has
basitubera, in
front of the
attachment point between the
skull and the neck, that...
- a
unique combination of characters.
Unlike all
other phytosaurs, the
basitubera,
areas at the base of the
skull in
front of its
attachment point with...
- the base of the
braincase and
contact the roof of the mouth) and the
basitubera (which are
positioned further up and do not
contact any bone,
acting as...
