Re: Armored titanosaurs with extreme skeletal pneumaticity

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

Rescued from truncation:

>  Say what? THIS study reveals that non-theropod saurischians had PSP?
>
>  I wonder what e.g. Matt Wedel has to say about this. And what this
>  says about the review quality of PalZ. Nothing good, I'd say.....
>
>  Heinrich Mallison

No, no, no. It specifies "extreme PSP":

> > [...] Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity (PSP) has been reported in
> > numerous extinct archosaurs including pterosaurs and non-avian
> > dinosaurs. Here we report a case of extreme PSP in a group of
> > small-bodied, armored sauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous
> > of South America. Based on osteological data, we report an
> > extensive invasion of pneumatic diverticula along the vertebral
> > column, reaching the distal portion of the tail. Also, we provide
> > evidence of pneumaticity in both pectoral and pelvic girdles. Our
> > study reveals that the extreme PSP in archosaurs is not restricted
> > to pterosaurs and theropod dinosaurs.