Vertebral pneumaticity, air sacs, and the physiology of sauropod dinosaurs

By M. Wedel. Paleobiology, 2003

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Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Roger B. J. Benson
2. Matthew Carrano
3. José Luis Carballido
4. Scott Sampson
5. P. O’Connor
6. D. Pol
7. L. Salgado
8. D. Henderson

In Paleontology

1. Roger B. J. Benson
2. José Luis Carballido
3. Matthew Carrano
4. D. Pol
5. Scott Sampson
6. P. O’Connor
7. L. Salgado
8. D. Henderson

Citations in the corpus

• Modeling growth rates for sauropod dinosaurs (2008, background): “Because of their avian-style pulmonary air sac system and pneumatic vertebrae, sauropods may have had considerably lower bulk body densities than previously assumed (Paul 1997; Wedel 2003).”
• The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) (2012, background): “Given the tendencies towards increased pneumatization in larger (older) individuals among theropods (Wedel 2003; although see Rauhut & Fechner 2005; Brusatte et al. 2009b) and the variability of pneumatic features even within a single individual (Zhao & Currie 1994), we consider this likely to be…”
• BURLY GAITS: CENTERS OF MASS, STABILITY, AND THE TRACKWAYS OF SAUROPOD DINOSAURS (2006, methodology): “Combining lungs, abdominal and thoracic air sacs, and dorsal axial air sacs (Wedel, 2003a), and treating them all as air-filled cavities, gives the trunk region a mean density of ap- proximately 800 g/L, which was used for both the Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus models.”
• A new basal rebbachisaurid (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the Early Cretaceous of the Neuquén Basin; evolution and biogeography of the group (2012, background): “This centrum and other fragmentary centra show that the internal cavities are true pneumatic camerae (sensu Wedel 2003a, 2003b).”
• THE POSTCRANIAL AXIAL SKELETON OF MAJUNGASAURUS CRENATISSIMUS (THEROPODA: ABELISAURIDAE) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF MADAGASCAR (2007, background): “…pterosaurs, basal archosauriforms), several workers have promoted the idea that an avianstyle lung and air sac system was responsible for such features (Owen, 1856; Janensch, 1947; Britt, 1993, 1997; Britt et al., 1998; Gower, 2001; O’Connor, 2003, 2006; Wedel 2003; O’Connor and Claessens, 2005).”