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Re: Notarium vs. Synsacrum

>        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". 


    Two different things. The notarium is fused dorsal vertebrae that 
support the scacula in birds and some pterosaurs. The synsacrum is fused 
sacral vertebrae.


 MattTroutman


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