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Article: AN OSSIFIED TENDON TRELLIS IN CHASMOSAURUS (ORNITHISCHIA: CERATOPSIDAE)
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- Journal of Paleontology
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- March 1, 2007
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INTRODUCTION
THE ORNITHISCHIA and its sister group, the Saurischia, comprise the Dinosauria. Ornithischians (Weishampel, 2004) are a diverse group of primarily quadrupedal herbivores that include such familiar dinosaurs as the armored stegosaurs and ankylosaurs (Thyreophora), as well as the duckbilled hadrosaurs, pachycephalosaurs, and ceratopsians (Cerapoda). The Ceratopsia (You and Dodson, 2004) includes a number of relatively small basal forms such as psittacosaurs and Neoceratopsia, which comprises protoceratopsids and the larger, more derived horned Ceralopsidae.
Ossified tendons occur throughout the body of many birds (Vanden Berge and Storer, 1995), but reports in other Saurischia ...
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