Re: Notarium question

[David Peters <davidrpeters@earthlink.net>]

Yes!

Prior to your email I was thinking that scutes of all sorts might be
included. But good thinking!

I once held a chess-piece-like portion of a giant sloth sternum. Would
that count?

And of course, the bacculum (sp?), but that doesn't articulate with
anything.

Gasp!  Prepubis on pterosaurs!  (possible gastralia pair? Any guesses on
origin?)

David Peters
St. Louis

darren.naish@port.ac.uk wrote:

> David, if you're referring to neomorphs (viz, entirely new
> structures that don't apparently have an evolutionary
> precedent structure) here are a few more...
>
> -- rostral bone of ceratopsians
> -- the teleost symplectic
> -- scutes of _Dermochelys_and related turtles
> -- supraorbital ossifications of some geckos
> -- predentaries of ichthyornithids, hesperornithiforms and
> teratornithids
> -- ornithischian predentary
> -- supra-scapular ossification of _Parksosaurus_
> -- antarticular in theropods _Allosaurus_ and _Bagaraatan_
> -- 'dumbell bone' of platypus skull
>
> --
> Darren Naish
> School of Earth & Environmental Sciences
> University of Portsmouth UK, PO1 3QL
>
> email: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
> tel: 023 92846045