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University of California Press

Vertebral Morphology, Alternation of Neural Spine Height, and Structure in Permo-Carboniferous Tetrapods, and a Reappraisal of Primitive Modes of Terrestrial Locomotion


by Stuart Shigeo Sumida (Author)
Price: $31.95 / £27.00
Publication Date: Sep 1990
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9780520097551
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About the Book

In this volume the author examines the pervasive pattern of alternation of structure and height of vertebral neural spines in the context of a larger review of axial structure in the most terrestrial of primitive Permo-Carboniferous tetrapods. He concludes that a coupled pattern of axial dorsiflexion and rotation played a significant role in primitive terrestrial locomotion.