Thoracic epaxial muscles in living archo
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Organ, Christopher Lee
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Crocodylians possess the same thoracic epaxial muscles as most other saurians, but M. transversospinalis is modified by overlying osteoderms. Compared with crocodylians, the thoracic epaxial muscles of birds are reduced in size, disrupted by the synsacrum, and often modified by intratendinous ossifi