Reassessment of the vertebral laminae in some South American titanosaurian sauropods

The neural spines of the sauropod presacral vertebrae contain a series of osseous laminae of unquestionable phylogenetic significance. However, the lack of articulated presacral series has impeded identification of these structures in many taxa. Titanosaur sauropods present a pattern of neural lamin...

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Autores: Salgado, Leonardo, Powell, Jaime Eduardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/73562
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/73562
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sauropods
Titanosauria
Vertebral Anatomy
Cretaceous
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Sumario:The neural spines of the sauropod presacral vertebrae contain a series of osseous laminae of unquestionable phylogenetic significance. However, the lack of articulated presacral series has impeded identification of these structures in many taxa. Titanosaur sauropods present a pattern of neural laminae that is somewhat different from other groups, especially to diplodocids. Understanding these differences is important in order to score adequately characters related to vertebral anatomy, in phylogenetic analyses of the Sauropoda. Particularly, many titanosaurs present two spinodiapophyseal laminae in the posterior dorsal vertebrae. Additionally, these taxa show the apparent disappearing of the postzygodiapophyseal lamina in those vertebrae. Other titanosaurs have a single posterior dorsal spinodiapophyseal lamina, but this probably corresponds to one (probably the anterior) of the two spinodiapophyseal laminae of the posterior dorsals of the other titanosaurs.