The medial malleolus is expanded caudally and rounded medially, with a proximal extension that develops into a small thin crest extending diagonally onto the cranial face of the shaft.
An adult and a juvenile were preserved (Fig. 10a, b), to which we gave the name Guanlong (crested dragon), as the adult bore a large thin crest along the top of its head (Xu et al. 2006a, b).
"The skull has this extraordinarily tall and thin crest with a snout and a huge beak with sharp edges and a strange sliding jaw joint," that could be used to cut up vegetation and meat, he says.
The head is usually large and is topped by a thin, upright crest; the eyes are inlaid with shell, the nose is hooked, and the wide mouth exposes the teeth above a triangular chin.
Forty-two patients with a mean age of 61.3 years old (range 49 73) in need of fixed prosthetic implant-supported rehabilitations in the posterior region of the mandible, presenting a thin alveolar crest, were selected.
Pair of thin crests on rostrum corresponding to the maxillary-nasal sutures.
On the posterior slope of this crest, a thin opening is reconstructed for the vena capita dorsalis.
The partial left lacrimal associated with the holotype (Fig. 1J) preserves a series of thin anteroposteriorly-oriented crests on its dorsal surface – a mediolaterally robust crest extending from the lacrimal-prefrontal suture at the orbital margin and two thinner crests lateral to a shallow groove extending from the orbit.
A beautiful painting dedicated to the artist Alan Shields (1944-2005) is a little ocean of cresting waves with a thin, multicolor necklace of paint, of a sort Shields might have used to adorn his cloth sculptures, floating over it.
The crest was densely forested, but there was a thin opening that showed a ribbon of mountains receding into the distance.
