Postzygapophysis

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Post`zyg`a`poph´y`sis


n.1.(Anat.) A posterior zygapophysis.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The postzygapophysis on SEKI-20181 and Diadophis is only slightly longer than wide (versus distinctly longer than wide for Tantilla).
A mid-Holocene fauna from Bear Den Cave, Sequoia National Park, California
The anterior vertebra also shows most of the left postzygapophysis, but only a portion of the right one is preserved.
First Triassic tetrapod (Sauropterygia, Nothosauridae) from Castilla y Leon: evidence of an unknown taxon for the Spanish record
CL, centrum length; CR, centrum ratio: CL/PCD; PCD, post-centural diameter; PO, postzygapophysis; PR, prezygapophysis.
Late Pleistocene salamander (Caudata; Plethodontidae) from Santa Rosa Island, Northern Channel Islands, California
Only the left postzygapophysis is partially preserved.
Postcranial elements of Maledictosuchus riclaensis (Thalattosuchia) from the Middle Jurassic of Spain
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