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  • 1. Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
  • 2. Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA & Current address: University of Southern California, Zumberge Hall of Science, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, USA
  • 3. North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 West Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina 27601, USA
  • 4. Mention Bassins sédimentaires, Evolution, Conservation, BEC, Université d'Antananarivo, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar
  • 5. Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
  • 6. Division of Paleontology and Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York NY 10024, USA

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Figure 6. Articulated cervical vertebra and osteoderm series of Mambachiton fiandohana (UA 8-25-97-132) in ventral view as a photograph (A), line drawing (B), and CT rendering model with the osteoderms and matrix removed (C). Grey shading in (B) indicates sandstone matrix. Arrow indicates anterior direction. Scale bar = 5 cm. Abbreviations: 1st, first preserved cervical vertebra; 7th, seventh preserved cervical vertebra; cr, cervical rib; os, osteoderms.

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Published as part of Nesbiư, Sterling J., Patellos, Emily, Kammerer, Christian F., Ranivoharimanana, Lovasoa, Andre, Wyss, R. & Flynn, John J., 2023, The earliest-diverging avemetatarsalian: a new osteoderm- bearing taxon from the Triassic (?Earliest Late Triassic) of Madagascar and the composition of avemetatarsalian assemblages prior to the radiation of dinosaurs, pp. 327-353 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 199 (2) on page 335, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad038, http://zenodo.org/record/8426293

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