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Definition of Pygal

Pygal
Pygal Py"gal, a. [Gr. ? the rump.] (Anat.) Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians.

Meaning of Pygal from wikipedia

- periphals then extend along each side. At the posterior of the s**** is the pygal bone and in front of this nested behind the eighth pleurals is the suprapygal...
- the eighth thoracic vertebra which are smaller than the others, and the pygal plate closest to the tail which is larger. Archelon has ten pairs of ribs...
- thirty-six dorsal vertebrae and nine pygal vertebrae; M. hoffmannii had likely up to thirty-two dorsal vertebrae and ten pygal vertebrae; and M. missouriensis...
- clades is unclear. Tylosaurus had 29 to 30 presacral vertebrae, 6 to 7 pygal vertebrae, and 89 to 112 caudal vertebrae; due to the lack of a bony articulation...
- eleven peripherals (per side), a nuchal at the front and a suprapygal and pygal at the rear of the s****. As noted earlier, neurals, although always present...
- Bennison's skeleton and consisted of an articulated series of fifty-four dorsal, pygal, and caudal vertebrae. It was sent to UC Berkeley as UCMP 33913. Field expeditions...
- cervical and anterior dorsal vertebrae with cervical and dorsal ribs, isolated pygal and caudal vertebrae, sca****-coracoid and scattered elements of the appendicular...
- Cranial elements including left maxilla with teeth. P. sp. 4 Lumbar vertebrae and pygal P. sp. 5 Two teeth Tylosaurinae indet. Front paddle. A tylosaurine....
- between the two lobes is 102.7 millimetres (4.04 in) long. Since the domed pygal plate curves inwards, this indicates that the holotype individual was a...
- dorsal (back) coat varies from gray to rosy-brown, sometimes with a brown pygal patch around the tail region, where the fur grades to pale gray or grayish...