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Is This A Vertebra?


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Found today at a Pleistocene site in SC. I think it's a vertebra from a large Pleistocene mammal but I'm not sure.

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Atlas and the Vertebrae - new Rock group?

I think they are opening for the 'stones.

Brent Ashcraft

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All I have to say is thank you for saying vertebra as opposed to vertebrae! Carry on.

I cannot agree more.... one of my personal pet peeves.

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I say, young Carl, why don't we two, in the name of good ole education, remind people to say vertebra when there is one and vertebrae when there are two or more.

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Thanks guys for the grammar lesson.

I never thought of the singular for some reason.

It's hard to remember why you drained the swamp when your surrounded by alligators.

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And we say "axes" when there is more than one "axis"

But what do we say when there is more than one "atlas", my good sirs?

The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence".

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And we say "axes" when there is more than one "axis"

But what do we say when there is more than one "atlas", my good sirs?

At my house it would be "them thar map bookses"

Don't have a clue

Brent Ashcraft

who though fish was both singular and plural until way too recently

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I say, young Carl, why don't we two, in the name of good ole education, remind people to say vertebra when there is one and vertebrae when there are two or more.

Absolutely! I have done it on occasion here before, but with seemingly no reaction. Viva la vertebra!

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I cannot agree more.... one of my personal pet peeves peevae.

:P

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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"One atlas vertebra, two atlas vertebrae"; using the term "atlas" alone in this case is just lazy shorthand.

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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The plural of atlas is atlantes, as Donnyjoe pointed out.

And remember Ockham's Razor, Auspex. One should not multiply entities without necessity. :)

The plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence".

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"One atlas vertebra, two atlas vertebrae"; using the term "atlas" alone in this case is just lazy shorthand.

what about atlii?

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