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June 21, 2008
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A question, maybe a dumb one: The posterior prong on the ventral surface of the sagittal crest in P. longiceps... I've noticed it in other reconstructions and wondered if it's analogous to our external occipital protuberance making it part of the nuchal line. If it were, the contour of the neck would be thicker dorsoventrally, wouldn't it? Do you have any info on that? Just a general wondering.
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I'm only rendering muscles and do not thik there was a throat pouch. Bennett covered the idea of a throat pouch in his dissertation and found it unlikely based on the structure of the jaw which appears to have been fairly static and had a distinctive shelf covering the region dorsal to the symphysis, and of the hyoid which was heavily reduced and could not play any role in supporting a throat pouch.
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... So Says JoH.
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