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Attempts to quantitatively reconstruct the range of motion of sauropod necks are intrinsically flawed because of ubiquitous distortion in preserved cervical vertebrae. This is true even for specimens that are usually considered particularly well preserved, such as the Carnegie Diplodocus and the Berlin Giraffatitan.
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Taylor, M. Range of motion in intervertebral joints: why we don’t trust DinoMorph. Nat Prec (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2012.6878.1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2012.6878.1
