Re: Notarium vs. Synsacrum

["Amir H. Saidin" <ahsaidin@tm.net.my>]

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> From: Jonathan R. Wagner <znc14@TTACS.TTU.EDU>
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Notarium vs. Synsacrum
> Date: Tuesday, March 31, 1998 1:08 AM
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>         As I have recently discovered that my understanding of matters
both
> semantic, systematic, and anatomical is rather more limited than I had
> reason to suspect, I ask this simple question:
>         Is "notarium" appropriate for birds? It has been used in an avian
> context on this list quite a bit of late. I thought the term for birds
was
> "synsacrum". 
>
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>     Jonathan R. Wagner, Dept. of Geosciences, TTU, Lubbock, TX 79409-1053
>                  "The truth points to itself" - Kosh
> i'm no expert, but doesn't synsacrum refer specifically to the fusion of
the sacral vertebrae into one bone,while notarium refers to fusion of the
dorsal vertebrae in general?
meor hakif.