The Significance Of Dino Rib Discoveries In Paleontology

We hypothesize that bifurcated cervical ribs are traces of diverging neck muscles that provided improved control in the middle of the neck, at some distance from both the head and the trunk. We present the histological and taphonomic analysis of a dinosaur dorsal rib fragment from the marlia formation in the western state of minas gerais. All dinosaur fossils from this unit were 34 assigned to saurischia, most of them poorly preserved. We present the 35 histological and taphonomic analysis of a dinosaur dorsal rib fragment from.