Cranial kinesis is the term for significant movement of skull bones relative to each other in addition to movement at the joint between the upper and...
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reproduction coefficient. The models of kinesis were tested with typical situations. It was demonstrated that kinesis is beneficial for assimilation of both...
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ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as...
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Birds show independent movement of the skull bones known as cranial kinesis. Cranial kinesis in birds occurs in several forms, but all of the different...
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also thought that early avialans were either cranially akinetic or had otherwise limited cranial kinesis. Avialans diversified into a wide variety of...
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quadrate, or maxilla. The snake skull shows the greatest degree of cranial kinesis, which allows the snake to swallow large prey items. In mammals, the...
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here) cranial kinesis Cranial kinesis is the ability of parts of the skull to move against each other at joints within the skull. Though cranial kinesis had...
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downcurved. Like all birds, the bills of sandpipers are capable of cranial kinesis, literally being able to move the bones of the skull (other than the...
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(December 12, 2008). "Cranial kinesis in dinosaurs: intracranial joints, protractor muscles, and their significance for cranial evolution and function...
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sturgeons and fossil paddlefish, were capable of protrusion, a form of cranial kinesis allowing them to move relative to the rest of the skull, with the upper...
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Stan's skull has enabled scientists to learn more about the T. rex's cranial kinesis, or movement of the skull bones, than any other T. rex specimen. Because...
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sheathes. The skull also exhibits features consistent with significant cranial kinesis: a synovial joint between the braincase and the frontals and a loose...
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heterodontosaurids as basal pachycephalosaurs on the basis of perceived cranial kinesis, the presence of fanglike premaxillary teeth, and the prominent diastema...
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the ability to have high speed jaw opening (high kinesis) or higher bite transmission (lower kinesis). While there is a more complex relationship between...
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non-overlapping bones. This is believed to have facilitated the evolution of cranial kinesis in birds which has played a critical role in their ecological success...
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fenestration (the shape of holes in the skull behind the eye) and cranial kinesis (the flexibility of joints within the skull). One idea was that Tanystropheus...
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tendenze evolutive. Part II – Striges, Caprimulgiformes ed Apodiformes ["Cranial kinesis and morphology of non-passerine birds. Study of various evolutionary...
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Joshua B Smith, Matthew Lamanna, Allison Tumarkin-Deratzian (2004) Cranial Kinesis and Diet in Mawsonia (Actinistia, Coelanthiformes) Cavin, Lionel; Boudad...
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LeBlanc; Michael W. Caldwell; Johan Lindgren (2013). "Aquatic adaptation, cranial kinesis, and the skull of the mosasaurine mosasaur Plotosaurus bennisoni"....
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Junggarsuchus (section Post-Cranial Skeleton)
of the skull, Clark and colleagues noted that there was very little cranial kinesis and there were attachment sites for very powerful jaw muscles, which...
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skeleton, including a flat or shallow skull, a fused skull roof with no cranial kinesis, exoccipital-postparietal contact on the occiput, and four or fewer...
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upper jaw of Squamates is movable on the cranium, a configuration called kinesis. This is made possible by a loose connection between the quadrate and its...
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Gerrothorax differs from these animals by its lack of cranial kinesis, meaning that its cranial bones could not flex against each other to envelop prey...
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Osmólska and colleagues suggested that Gallimimus was capable of cranial kinesis (due to the seemingly loose connection between some of the bones at...
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marginal, median, etc.—see broadly wing coverts and tail coverts. cranial kinesis Also defined: prokinesis, amphikinesis and distal rhynchokinesis. Movement...
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2012-04-02. Olsen, A.M. (3–7 Jan 2012). Beyond the beak: Modeling avian cranial kinesis and the evolution of bird skull shapes. Society for Integrative & Comparative...
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hands and feet rather than its jaws. Welles did not find evidence of cranial kinesis in the skull of Dilophosaurus, a feature that allows individual bones...
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quadrate bone (c) is particularly elongated in snakes, to facilitate cranial kinesis. Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Division of Vertebrate...
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endocranium is hinged, the hinge forming the profundus nerve foramen. The cranial kinesis is also visible in the skull roof, between the parietal bones and the...
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skull would have rendered the Enantiornithes capable of only limited cranial kinesis (the ability to move the jaw independent of the cranium). As a very...
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