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Preparing an Ornithopod Vertebra

Two halves of vertebra #278

Back half of vertebra showing the dorsal spine

Vertebra embedded in Carbowax

Plasticine wall removed, ready for removal of rest of rock

Both halves of the vertebra

Finished vertebra, glued back together again

Posterior view of vertebra - no transverse processes visible

Second ornithopod dinosaur skeleton from Dinosaur Cove

Partial ornithopod dinosaur skeleton from Eric the Red West

Figure 28 from Galton 1974, showing first 12 caudal vertebrae of Hypsilophodon foxii
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