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caudal vertebra

NOUN
  1. one of 4 vertebrae in the human coccyx

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  • It can be distinguished from congeners in having a combination of: postanal length 36·6-44·8 % standard length; pectoral-fin length 14·4-25·9% head length; 34-38 dorsal spines; 42-46 caudal vertebrae; 78-83 total vertebrae; brown background colour without or with only a limited and scattered dark brown reticulate pattern. Practical Fishkeeping
  • It can be diagnosed by various details of the premaxilla, nasal, and dentary in the skull and the shape of the distal caudal vertebrae.
  • P. conybeari, based on caudal vertebrae, chevrons and a large and gracile humerus, is a basal titanosauriform, perhaps a brachiosaurid. Archive 2006-02-01
  • The first caudal vertebra is identified as the most anterior vertebra that has paired haemal flanges extending along the ventral surface of the centrum.
  • Wing membrane from base of toes; lobule at the heel very narrow and long; last rudimentary caudal vertebra free; fur of the body, wings, and interfemoral membrane pale buff throughout. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • There is a well-developed atlas and the caudal vertebrae can be distinguished from the trunk vertebrae by the presence of hemal arches.
  • In the posterior precaudal and anterior caudal vertebrae rib shafts become hairlike structures.
  • The decapod remains were located between 0.5 and 3.0 m from a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur caudal vertebra.
  • The associated hadrosaur material consists of four caudal vertebrae and a fragmentary dentary.
  • Ambulocetus is cited as showing that spinal undulation evolved in whales before development of a tail fluke, but that claim was made when only one lumbar and one caudal vertebra were known.
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