The vertebral portions increase in length from the first which is very stout, and has the capitulum and tuberculum very distinct, to about the eighth or ninth; afterwards they gradually diminish in size.
The anterior ribs have two articulating surfaces, and each articulates by its tuberculum with the transverse process, and by its capitulum with the centrum as in mammals.
A the facet for articulation with the tuberculum of the rib.
The transverse processes of the fifteenth vertebra bear two facets for the articulation of the capitulum and tuberculum of the rib.
The ribs borne by the third to seventh cervical vertebrae are shaped like a =T= with a double base, one limb of which, corresponding to the tuberculum (fig.
The first and second vertebral ribs differ from the others in the fact that the tuberculum forms a fairly long outstanding process.
The latter articulate with thetuberculum of the corresponding rib, while the capitulum articulates by a knob on the side of the anterior end of the centrum.
From the outer tuberculum extends the large crista superior (insertion of pectoralis major and of deltoideus major muscles).
Scapula, coracoid and clavicle, meet to form the foramen triosseum, through which passes the tendon of the supracoracoideus, or subclavius muscle to the tuberculum superius of the humerus.
The tuberculum olfactorium becomes greatly reduced and at the same time flattened; so that it is not easy to draw a line of demarcation between it and the anterior perforated space.
The basiventral (=intercentrum) would merely have expanded sufficiently to provide a diapophysis for the tuberculum as well as the (primitive) facet for the capitulum.
On the attachments of the Urodele rib to the vertebra and their homologies with the capitulum and tuberculum of the Amniote rib.
The tuberculum and capitulum on each of the trunk ribs are separated only by a shallow concavity.
Above each pleurocentrum, on the lateral surface of the neural arch, there is a short diapophysis for articulation with the tuberculum of the rib.
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