Posted for Matt’s future reference, but possibly useful for others? Includes posts on neurocentral fusion and supramedullary/paramedullary diverticula.
- January 26, 2008: Tutorial 5: neurocentral fusion
- September 9, 2013: Tutorial 36: the atlas-axis complex in sauropods
- May 31, 2017: Sauropod neural canals are weird, part 1: when the neural arch, um, isn’t one
- January 22, 2018: Sauropod neural canals are weird, part 1b: more offset neural arch joints
- May 8, 2018: Bird neural canals are weird, part 1: intro and supramedullary diverticula
- May 16, 2018: Bird neural canals are weird, part 2: the lumbosacral expansion
- May 22, 2018: Sauropod neural canals are weird, part 1c: unfused Giraffatitan dorsal
- September 14, 2018: The Atterholt and Wedel (2018) SVPCA abstract and talk are now available on PeerJ Preprints
- October 26, 2018: Some noodling about pneumaticity and body size
- January 7, 2019: Things to Make and Do, Part 25b: what to do with your bird vertebrae
- January 17, 2019: Bird neural canals are weird, part 3: the glycogen body
- January 23, 2019: Birds have balance organs in their butts. Why is no-one talking about this?!
- May 15, 2021: Haplocanthosaurus neural canals are weird, part 1: in which we tell the world
- May 16, 2021: Haplocanthosaurus neural canals are weird, part 2: getting comparative specimens from the grocery store
- December 17, 2021: New paper out today: Aureliano et al. (2021) on exquisite pneumaticity in a tiny titanosaur
- March 29, 2022: New paper: pneumatic diverticula in the neural canals of birds
- October 24, 2022: Obscure vertebral anatomy term of the day: bouton
Updated October 24, 2022
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week 