Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of dorsosacral
Thirteen cervical vertebrae are present in Stegosaurus mjosi but there are only 13 dorsals in this species (including two dorsosacrals), giving 26 presacral vertebrae in total (DMNH 29431; [17 ]).
2015 October 15, “The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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