postcranial
Americanadjective
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located posterior to the head.
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pertaining to or involving parts of the body that lie posterior to the head.
Etymology
Origin of postcranial
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With their excellent preservation, the cranial, dental, and postcranial remains have been the subjects of extensive biological and morphological comparisons across Eurasia.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024
"It appears that the inner ear provides a unique record of the evolutionary history of ape locomotion that offers an invaluable alternative to the study of the postcranial skeleton."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 29, 2024
But Brunet’s team didn’t give it a serious analysis until 2017 when a specialist in postcranial bones, Guillaume Daver, began to study it with Poitiers paleoanthropologist Franck Guy.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 24, 2022
Paleontologist Anna Gillespie and colleagues named this new species of "marsupial lion" from a nearly-complete skull and additional postcranial bones found in the 26-19 million year old deposits of Australia's Riversleigh World Heritage Area.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 16, 2017
How much of the organism’s is known?: A nearly-complete skull and additional postcranial bones.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 16, 2017
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