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Postcrania

Index Postcrania

Postcrania (postcranium, adjective: postcranial) in zoology and vertebrate paleontology refers to all or part of the skeleton apart from the skull. [1]

10 relations: Cretaceous, Dinosaur, Nemegtosaurus, Opisthocoelicaudia, Sauropoda, Skeleton, Skull, Tetrapod, Vertebrate paleontology, Zoology.

Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Nemegtosaurus

Nemegtosaurus (meaning 'Reptile from the Nemegt') was a sauropod dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia.

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Opisthocoelicaudia

Opisthocoelicaudia is a genus of sauropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous Period discovered in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.

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Sauropoda

Sauropoda, or the sauropods (sauro- + -pod, "lizard-footed"), are a clade of saurischian ("lizard-hipped") dinosaurs.

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Skeleton

The skeleton is the body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism.

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Skull

The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.

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Tetrapod

The superclass Tetrapoda (from Greek: τετρα- "four" and πούς "foot") contains the four-limbed vertebrates known as tetrapods; it includes living and extinct amphibians, reptiles (including dinosaurs, and its subgroup birds) and mammals (including primates, and all hominid subgroups including humans), as well as earlier extinct groups.

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Vertebrate paleontology

Vertebrate paleontology is the subfield of paleontology that seeks to discover, through the study of fossilized remains, the behavior, reproduction and appearance of extinct animals with vertebrae or a notochord.

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Zoology

Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.

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Post-cranial, Postcranial, Postcranial skeleton, Postcranium.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcrania

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