Definition of postcranial
: of or relating to the part of the body caudal to the head
- postcranial skeleton
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A novel form of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in a sauropod dinosaur: implications for the paleobiology of Rebbachisauridae.
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Meachen and Samuels looked to the postcranial skeletons of coyotes and grey wolves from the late Pleistocene to the modern era to track how the canids changed.
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First Known Use of postcranial
1879
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