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Dinosaur Anatomical Terms

Started by Pachyrhinosaurus, June 04, 2012, 10:24:14 PM

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Pachyrhinosaurus

After reading some of the forums, I decided that a thread like this would be useful to all members here. I'll start off.
Epoccipital=The spikes or bumps on the outside of a ceratopsid's frill
Patagium=Skin flaps which form a wing or winglike structure.
Propatagium=Pterosaur patagium which runs from wrist to shoulder
Brachiopatagium=Pterosaur patagium stretching from the fourth finger to the hind legs
Nasal horn=Horn on the nasal area of a ceratopsid (paleoferroequine)
Postorbital horn=The horn above the eye (orbital) on a ceratopsid (paleoferroequine)
Parietosquasmosal frill=Bony margin on the head of a ceratopsian (paleoferroequine)
Squasmosals=Outer bones on a ceratopsid frill (paleoferroequine)
Parietal=Center bones of a ceratopsid frill (paleoferroequine)
Episquamosals=Epoccipitals on the outer edge of a ceratopsid frill (paleoferroequine)
Epiparietals=Epoccipitals on the top edge of a ceratopsid frill (paleoferroequine)
Thagomizer=Spikes found at the end of a stegosaur tail (Zopteryx)


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Seijun

Is there a technical term for ceratopsian nasal and brow horns?
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Pachyrhinosaurus

Quote from: Seijun on June 04, 2012, 10:36:53 PM
Is there a technical term for ceratopsian nasal and brow horns?
Not that I know of. I was actually looking for the technical term for ceratopsian frills.
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Quote from: Seijun on June 04, 2012, 10:36:53 PM
Is there a technical term for ceratopsian nasal and brow horns?
Nasal horn and postorbital horn.
The frill is the parietosquasmosal frill. Simply put the squasmosals are the outer bones and the parietal is in the center. I hope. :P
The epoccipitals are broken down as episquamosals (outer edge)and epiparietals(top edge)

ZoPteryx

Thagomizer:  Informal term for the tail spikes of stegosaurs ^-^

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I added all the terms to the original post, giving credit to the poster.
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Takama

Quote from: Zopteryx on June 05, 2012, 05:13:35 AM
Thagomizer:  Informal term for the tail spikes of stegosaurs ^-^

Yet it was used in Planet Dinosaur

Eriorguez

And IIRC in formal literature as well.

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