- are not
inset from the
lateral sides. At the
front back vertebrae, the
hypapophyses, the
lower swellings of the
front facet edges, are
formed like low mounds...
-
features that
diagnose members of this family, such as the
presence of
hypapophyses only in
anterior trunk, that the
middle and
posterior trunk vertebrae...
- enlarged.
Though not keeled, the
front dorsal vertebrae have
paired hypapophyses at
their undersides, just as with
Streptospondylus altdorfensis. Sadleir...
- an egg. Once swallowed, the egg is
punctured by
specialized vertebral hypapophyses which extend into the esophagus. The s**** is then
regurgitated in one...
-
colored dorsum. The
genus differs from most
colubrid genera in
lacking hypapophyses on
posterior dorsal vertebrae and in
bearing nine
maxillary teeth (the...
-
caudal vertebrae are round, the
cervical and
dorsal vertebrae preserve hypapophyses without pneumatopores, the
caudal prezygapophyses is
distally elongated...
- series. All the
cervicals but the most
posterior and axis/atlas have
hypapophyses and
those triangular neural spines; all
characteristics that have been...
-
number of
palatine teeth (including a
greatly enlarged "fang"), and
hypapophyses developed throughout the
vertebral column. It was once
thought to be...
- rounded; the
subcaudals occur in two rows. The
vertebral column has
hypapophyses developed throughout. Dorsally, this
snake is blackish-brown, with a...
-
Streptospondylus has been
diagnosed by the
unique bifurcation (split) of the
hypapophyses (processes
which extend from the
lower surface of a vertebra) in the...
