Sentence examples for distinct crests from inspiring English sources

Grandidier described the extinct species as more robust, with more prominent muscle scars on the long bones and with longer molars with more distinct crests and lobes.

This attractive dragon lizard has a very long tail that is more than three times the length of its body, and a low but distinct crest along the top of its neck.

The broad-billed parrot's head was large in proportion to its body, and there was a distinct crest of feathers on the front of the head.

A small but distinct crest lies below the prominent dorsal muscle insertion of the proximal articulation surface.

The lateral face of the proximal end possesses a cranial process which is broad proximally and tapers distally where it forms a distinct crest, which merges with the shaft a quarter of the way down the shaft.

The petrosal of Mimoperadectes displays the following characteritics: the mastoid process is small and slanted; the mastoid exposure on the occiput is narrow; the rostral tympanic process forms a distinct crest; the prootic canal is retained, as well as the posttemporal sulcus (for the diploetic vessels) on the squamosal surface of the petrosal (see Text S1, S2 for more information).

Parietal with distinct supratemporal crests, with fronto-parietal suture interlocking.

The broad-billed parrot possessed a distinct frontal crest of feathers.

2. It lacks a pronounced lateral tuberosity that is continuous distally with a distinct lateral crest.

Note that this character describes the dorsal surface of the palatine, and not the ventral surface, which often exhibits a distinct ventral crest (see e.g., [64]: character 440).

A distinct medial crest originates from the midline of the proximal articular end and runs medio-distally along the medial side of the quadrate, terminating at the antero-medial corner of the disto-medial condyle.