Meanings
adjectiveparaquadratic (not comparable)
- not comparableanatomyOver the quadrate or the quadratojugal
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Because the posterior margin of the quadratojugal and the interpreted presence of a paraquadratic foramen are variable within Brachylophosaurus (see Quadrate and Quadratojugal descriptions and comparisons below), this character is not here considered an autapomorphy, and has been excluded from the emended diagnosis.
2015 November 12, “A New Brachylophosaurin Hadrosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) with an Intermediate Nasal Crest from the Campanian Judith River Formation of Northcentral Montana”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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