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Definition of Pygostyles

Pygostyle
Pygostyle Py"go*style, n. [Gr. ? the rump + ? a pillar.] (Anat.) The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. It is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebr[ae], and supports the uropigium.

Meaning of Pygostyles from wikipedia

- other words, the pygostyles of oviraptorosaurs and Confuciusornis were likely weight-saving measures, and the specialized "true" pygostyles of ornithurans...
- display. The tail of several oviraptorosaurs and oviraptorids ended in pygostyles, a bony structure at the end of the tail that, at least in modern birds...
- pubis (innominate); 15. ilium (innominate); 16. caudal vertebrae; 17. pygostyle; 18. synsacrum; 19. sca****; 20. dorsal vertebrae; 21. humerus; 22. ulna;...
- gastralia and a pubic symphysis. They also showed the first fully modern pygostyles, and the type specimen of Yixianornis (IVPP 13631) preserves eight elongated...
- small, round pieces of dark meat are often considered to be a delicacy. Pygostyle (chicken's buttocks) and ****s: These are commonly eaten in East Asia...
- the lumbar region and sacrum), six free tail (caudal) vertebrae, and a pygostyle. The neck had well-developed areas for muscle and ligament attachment...
- developed horny, toothless beaks by the very Late Jur****ic and short pygostyle tails by the Early Cretaceous. While the archosaurs and dinosaurs were...
- to the pygostyle. The Ornithothoraces have a ploughshare-shaped pygostyle, while the more primitive members had longer, rod-shaped pygostyles. The earliest...
- Caudal vertebrae compose the tail, and the final few can be fused into the pygostyle in birds, or into the coccygeal or tail bone in chimpanzees (and humans)...
- (Hemicircus excepting). The inner rectrix pairs became stiffened, and the pygostyle lamina was enlarged in the ancestral lineage of true wood****s (Hemicircus...