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Opisthocoelous
{
O-pisˊtho-coe′li-an
,O-pisˊtho-coe′lous
, }Adj.
[Gr.
ὄπισθεν
behind + κοῖλοσ
hollow,] (Anat.)
Concave behind; – applied especially to vertebrae in which the anterior end of the centrum is convex and the posterior concave.
Definition 2024
opisthocoelous
opisthocoelous
English
Adjective
opisthocoelous (not comparable)
- concave behind; applied especially to vertebrae in which the anterior end of the centrum is convex and the posterior concave
- 2001 June 1, Joshua B. Smith et al., “A Giant Sauropod Dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous Mangrove Deposit in Egypt”, in Science, volume 292, number 5522, DOI: , pages 1704-1706:
- Specimen 1912VIII64 was opisthocoelous, pleurocoelous, and caudally wider than tall, as in Epachthosaurus and Pellegrinisaurus (15), and may pertain to Paralititan.
- 1997 June 6, Jose L. Sanz et al., “A Nestling Bird from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain: Implications for Avian Skull and Neck Evolution”, in Science, volume 276, number 5318, DOI: , pages 1543-1546:
- On the basis of the presence of slightly opisthocoelous vertebrae in the Enantiornithes (presumably referring to the anterior dorsals), Kurochkin (3 ) has claimed that the Enantiornithes could not have evolved heterocoelous vertebrae.
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