Sentence examples for incomplete skeleton from inspiring English sources
This skull, part of an incomplete skeleton, was discovered in 1944-45.
Now studying for a doctorate in paleontology, with a fellowship from Nova, Octavio Mateus, 25, is trying to determine if there is a relationship between the eggs and the incomplete skeleton of a theropod found earlier by a local farmer.
Richard Owen identified two additional dinosaurs, albeit from fragmentary evidence: Cladeiodon, which was based on a single large tooth, and Cetiosaurus, which he named from an incomplete skeleton composed of very large bones.
Much of the anatomy of the enormous mid-Cretaceous African fish-eating Spinosaurus, known initially from an incomplete skeleton found in 191211, remained obscure until the publication of a new skeleton and assorted isolated elements of this dinosaur earlier this year12.
But she is older than Lucy, a more famous but incomplete skeleton found in far-away Ethiopia.
The type species of Amphicoelias, A. altus, was named by paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in December 1877 (though not published until 1878) for an incomplete skeleton consisting of two vertebrae, a pubis (hip bone), and a femur (upper leg bone).
There are actually lots of dinosaurs in the UK, but too many of them are very incomplete skeletons which are not always very informative and most are (in Mesozoic terms) from relatively recent species.
The site, including some four residential areas, has yielded the largest known collection of fossils of the extinct hominin Homo erectus altogether some 40 incomplete skeletons, which are commonly known as the Peking man fossils.
In 1940 he wrote to the Anatomy Institute: "I regret to say that through lack of cases I was unable to pack most of the specimens or to arrange for shipment… [I] packed 13 cases of skeletons and long bones leaving unpacked enough skeletons and long bones for about 12 cases… I dumped all the incomplete skeletons except long bones into the creek… as you appear to only require complete skeletons".
The tiny skulls belong to the titanosaurs, a group of sauropods known only from incomplete skeletons.
Cleaning and sorting the bones revealed the incomplete skeletons of 13 adults, one teenager, and 12 children—10 of them under 6 years old, and the youngest only 6 months old.
