Open AccessRange of motion in intervertebral joints: why we don’t trust DinoMorph
Author(s) -
Mike Taylor
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
nature precedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1756-0357
DOI - 10.1038/npre.2012.6878.1
Subject(s) - motion (physics) , range (aeronautics) , range of motion , distortion (music) , cervical vertebrae , computer science , geology , anatomy , artificial intelligence , biology , medicine , materials science , composite material , radiology , telecommunications , amplifier , bandwidth (computing)
Attempts to quantitatively reconstruct the range of motion of sauropod necks are intrinsically flawed because of ubiquitous distortion in preserved cervical vertebrae. This is true even for specimens that are usually considered particularly well preserved, such as the Carnegie Diplodocus and the Berlin Giraffatitan
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