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Skeletal pneumaticity is the
presence of air
spaces within bones. It is
generally produced during development by
excavation of bone by
pneumatic diverticula...
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Saurischian dinosaur vertebrae sometimes possess features known as
pleurocoels,
which are
hollow depressions on the
lateral portions of the vertebrae...
- the
vertebral body and a
concave rear. The
vertebral bodies had
single pleurocoels,
pneumatic depressions created by air sacs, on
their sides. The vertebral...
- longest.
There is a
pleurocoel (an air pocket) on the 5th
through 12th
vertebrae located on the
middle of each vertebra. The
pleurocoel is
nearly circular...
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united by
procoelous caudals,
opisthocoelous presacrals, a lack of
pleurocoels and open chevrons.
Following this, Austro-Hungarian
paleontologist Franz...
- front, and
pleurocoels (hollow depressions)
divided by
laminae (plates). The back (dorsal)
vertebrae had high
neural arches and deep
pleurocoels. The tail...
- such as a
prominent promaxillary fenestra,
cervical vertebrae with
pleurocoels in the
anterior part of the
centrum leading to a more
pneumatic neck...
- light;
their centra (the "bodies" of the vertebrae) were
hollowed out by
pleurocoels (depressions on the sides) and
centrocoels (cavities on the inside)....
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means "chambered lizard",
referring to the
hollow chambers,
known as
pleurocoels, in its
cervical vertebrae (Gr**** καμαρα (kamara)
meaning "vaulted chamber"...
- than they are tall. All
preserved sacrals have a
longitudinally elongate pleurocoel and a
ventral median groove,
which is
unknown in any ceratosaurs. The...
