Figure 2: Osteology and myology of S. curionii. | Nature Communications

Figure 2: Osteology and myology of S. curionii.

From: Exceptional fossil preservation demonstrates a new mode of axial skeleton elongation in early ray-finned fishes

Figure 2

(a) PIMUZ T 5806, photo and line drawing with (b) inset showing area of preserved soft tissue, (c) reconstruction of the myosepta with anterior to the right, (d) PIMUZ T 4104, abdominal–caudal transition illustrating vertebral morphology, (e) PIMUZ T 4156, abdominal vertebrae illustrating alternating neural arch morphology with arrows, indicating the true neural arches. a, abdominal myoseptum; c, caudal myoseptum; HA, haemal arch; HS, horizontal septum and flanking multilayer; i, intercalary; LT, lateral tendon; MR, myorhabdoid tendon; and NA, neural arch.

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