Re: Armored titanosaurs with extreme skeletal pneumaticity

[Heinrich Mallison <heinrich.mallison@googlemail.com>]

hm, 60% air in dorsal verts is NOT extreme, then? Remind me, how much
do mammals have? Lizards? Crocs? Amphibs?
Poor choice of word....
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. <tholtz@umd.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, June 9, 2012 4:44 pm, Heinrich Mallison wrote:
>> Extreme - meaning pelvic? Caudal? Wedel 2009.
>
> Clavicular air sacs, including the pectoral girdle.
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