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adjectiveparadiapophyseal (not comparable)
- not comparableThat covers the diapophysis
This buttress bifurcates ventrally forming a prominent PCDL which extends to the centrum, and a faint but distinct ridge that extends to the anterodorsal margin of the parapophysis, in the equivalent position of the paradiapophyseal lamina (PPDL; [30 ]; Fig 19C ).
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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