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The methods for reconstruction of the initial dimensions of distorted and damaged vertebrae in fossil tetrapods are elaborated and tested, using the axial skeleton of horned dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia as an example. These methods allow not only more reliable resolution of the problems of vertebrae preservation for processing morphometric data, but also improvement of reconstructions of the vertebral column, as skeletons are mounted for museum exposition.
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Original Russian Text © V.S. Tereshchenko, 2015, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2015, No. 3, pp. 70–80.
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Tereshchenko, V.S. Methods for size reconstruction in distorted and damaged vertebrae of fossil tetrapods. Paleontol. J. 49, 293–303 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030115030120
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