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Coalescence of caudal vertebrae in the giant dinosaur Diplodocus

✍ Scribed by Baruch S. Blumberg; Leon Sokoloff

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1961
Tongue: English
Weight: 609 KB
Volume: 4
Category: Article
ISSN: 0004-3591
DOI: 10.1002/art.1780040605

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Abstract

The coalescence, seen frequently in the caudal vertebrae of the giant dinosaur Dipiodocus longus, has been re‐examined. A comparison with vertebral fusion in contemporary species suggests that the changes in the dinosaur were of traumatic rather than rheumatoid type.

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