Shape variation in presacral vertebrae of saltasaurine titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)

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Zurriaguz, Virginia Laura; Alvarez, Alicia
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2014
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Titanosaurs were small- to giant-sized sauropods, highly derived and highly pneumatic. Using morphometric analyses, we studied differences in shape of the presacral vertebral centra in some of these sauropods, especially in saltasaurines, and compared asymmetry patterns in lateral pneumatic foramina (LPF) between these titanosaurs and avian and non-avian theropods. Geometric morphometric analyses showed that the cervical centra tend to be elongated and dorsoventrally short, with an elliptical LPF located in the middle of the centrum; dorsal centra tend to be short and higher than the cervical centra, with the LPF slightly displaced to the anterior region. Shape variation can be described as a result of the ordering of the vertebrae within both the cervical and dorsal sequences, and therefore these methods can be applied to predict the position of isolated vertebrae. A persistent pattern of asymmetry among LPF was observed when length–height indexes were plotted. The right LPF are usually larger than those on the left side in the cervical vertebrae (except in Saltasaurus loricatus) but variable in the dorsal vertebrae. We propose an explanation of this asymmetry based on the asymmetric arrangement of viscera and late development of the respiratory (and air sacs) system.
Fil: Zurriaguz, Virginia Laura. Universidad Maimónides. Área de Investigaciones Biomédicas y Biotecnológicas. Centro de Estudios Biomédicos, Biotecnológicos, Ambientales y Diagnóstico. Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Alvarez, Alicia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”; Argentina
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spelling Shape variation in presacral vertebrae of saltasaurine titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)Zurriaguz, Virginia LauraAlvarez, AliciaASYMMETRYGEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICSPNEUMATICITYPRESACRAL VERTEBRAETITANOSAURIAhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1Titanosaurs were small- to giant-sized sauropods, highly derived and highly pneumatic. Using morphometric analyses, we studied differences in shape of the presacral vertebral centra in some of these sauropods, especially in saltasaurines, and compared asymmetry patterns in lateral pneumatic foramina (LPF) between these titanosaurs and avian and non-avian theropods. Geometric morphometric analyses showed that the cervical centra tend to be elongated and dorsoventrally short, with an elliptical LPF located in the middle of the centrum; dorsal centra tend to be short and higher than the cervical centra, with the LPF slightly displaced to the anterior region. Shape variation can be described as a result of the ordering of the vertebrae within both the cervical and dorsal sequences, and therefore these methods can be applied to predict the position of isolated vertebrae. A persistent pattern of asymmetry among LPF was observed when length–height indexes were plotted. The right LPF are usually larger than those on the left side in the cervical vertebrae (except in Saltasaurus loricatus) but variable in the dorsal vertebrae. We propose an explanation of this asymmetry based on the asymmetric arrangement of viscera and late development of the respiratory (and air sacs) system.Fil: Zurriaguz, Virginia Laura. Universidad Maimónides. Área de Investigaciones Biomédicas y Biotecnológicas. Centro de Estudios Biomédicos, Biotecnológicos, Ambientales y Diagnóstico. Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Alvarez, Alicia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”; ArgentinaTaylor & Francis2014-11info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/84465Zurriaguz, Virginia Laura; Alvarez, Alicia; Shape variation in presacral vertebrae of saltasaurine titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Sauropoda); Taylor & Francis; Historical Biology; 26; 6; 11-2014; 801-8090891-2963CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1080/08912963.2013.858248info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2013.858248info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T09:48:43Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/84465instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 09:48:43.647CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Shape variation in presacral vertebrae of saltasaurine titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)
title Shape variation in presacral vertebrae of saltasaurine titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)
spellingShingle Shape variation in presacral vertebrae of saltasaurine titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)
Zurriaguz, Virginia Laura
ASYMMETRY
GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS
PNEUMATICITY
PRESACRAL VERTEBRAE
TITANOSAURIA
title_short Shape variation in presacral vertebrae of saltasaurine titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)
title_full Shape variation in presacral vertebrae of saltasaurine titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)
title_fullStr Shape variation in presacral vertebrae of saltasaurine titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)
title_full_unstemmed Shape variation in presacral vertebrae of saltasaurine titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)
title_sort Shape variation in presacral vertebrae of saltasaurine titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Zurriaguz, Virginia Laura
Alvarez, Alicia
author Zurriaguz, Virginia Laura
author_facet Zurriaguz, Virginia Laura
Alvarez, Alicia
author_role author
author2 Alvarez, Alicia
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv ASYMMETRY
GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS
PNEUMATICITY
PRESACRAL VERTEBRAE
TITANOSAURIA
topic ASYMMETRY
GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS
PNEUMATICITY
PRESACRAL VERTEBRAE
TITANOSAURIA
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Titanosaurs were small- to giant-sized sauropods, highly derived and highly pneumatic. Using morphometric analyses, we studied differences in shape of the presacral vertebral centra in some of these sauropods, especially in saltasaurines, and compared asymmetry patterns in lateral pneumatic foramina (LPF) between these titanosaurs and avian and non-avian theropods. Geometric morphometric analyses showed that the cervical centra tend to be elongated and dorsoventrally short, with an elliptical LPF located in the middle of the centrum; dorsal centra tend to be short and higher than the cervical centra, with the LPF slightly displaced to the anterior region. Shape variation can be described as a result of the ordering of the vertebrae within both the cervical and dorsal sequences, and therefore these methods can be applied to predict the position of isolated vertebrae. A persistent pattern of asymmetry among LPF was observed when length–height indexes were plotted. The right LPF are usually larger than those on the left side in the cervical vertebrae (except in Saltasaurus loricatus) but variable in the dorsal vertebrae. We propose an explanation of this asymmetry based on the asymmetric arrangement of viscera and late development of the respiratory (and air sacs) system.
Fil: Zurriaguz, Virginia Laura. Universidad Maimónides. Área de Investigaciones Biomédicas y Biotecnológicas. Centro de Estudios Biomédicos, Biotecnológicos, Ambientales y Diagnóstico. Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Alvarez, Alicia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”; Argentina
description Titanosaurs were small- to giant-sized sauropods, highly derived and highly pneumatic. Using morphometric analyses, we studied differences in shape of the presacral vertebral centra in some of these sauropods, especially in saltasaurines, and compared asymmetry patterns in lateral pneumatic foramina (LPF) between these titanosaurs and avian and non-avian theropods. Geometric morphometric analyses showed that the cervical centra tend to be elongated and dorsoventrally short, with an elliptical LPF located in the middle of the centrum; dorsal centra tend to be short and higher than the cervical centra, with the LPF slightly displaced to the anterior region. Shape variation can be described as a result of the ordering of the vertebrae within both the cervical and dorsal sequences, and therefore these methods can be applied to predict the position of isolated vertebrae. A persistent pattern of asymmetry among LPF was observed when length–height indexes were plotted. The right LPF are usually larger than those on the left side in the cervical vertebrae (except in Saltasaurus loricatus) but variable in the dorsal vertebrae. We propose an explanation of this asymmetry based on the asymmetric arrangement of viscera and late development of the respiratory (and air sacs) system.
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Zurriaguz, Virginia Laura; Alvarez, Alicia; Shape variation in presacral vertebrae of saltasaurine titanosaurs (Dinosauria, Sauropoda); Taylor & Francis; Historical Biology; 26; 6; 11-2014; 801-809
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