The caudal vertebrae
Vertebrae caudales
The small ribless bones of the tail, which lose, one feature at a time, everything that makes a vertebra a vertebra.
- Region
- Tail
- Members
- 18
- With a page
- None
How they differ along the set
What changes from one end of the series to the other, which is most of what there is to know about any one of them.
- The spinous process disappears at about the fourth.Reighard & Jennings 1901, the vertebral column
- Further back they become longer and more slender, and lose the character of vertebrae.Reighard & Jennings 1901, the vertebral column
- The last are reduced to bare bodies: slender rods of bone, enlarged at each end.Reighard & Jennings 1901, the vertebral column
The members
In order along the set. Any one of them can be singled out in the model above, with the picker beneath it.
- Caudal vertebra 1Vertebra caudalis I
- Caudal vertebra 2Vertebra caudalis II
- Caudal vertebra 3Vertebra caudalis III
- Caudal vertebra 4Vertebra caudalis IV
- Caudal vertebra 5Vertebra caudalis V
- Caudal vertebra 6Vertebra caudalis VI
- Caudal vertebra 7Vertebra caudalis VII
- Caudal vertebra 8Vertebra caudalis VIII
- Caudal vertebra 9Vertebra caudalis IX
- Caudal vertebra 10Vertebra caudalis X
- Caudal vertebra 11Vertebra caudalis XI
- Caudal vertebra 12Vertebra caudalis XII
- Caudal vertebra 13Vertebra caudalis XIII
- Caudal vertebra 14Vertebra caudalis XIV
- Caudal vertebra 15Vertebra caudalis XV
- Caudal vertebra 16Vertebra caudalis XVI
- Caudal vertebra 17Vertebra caudalis XVII
- Caudal vertebra 18Vertebra caudalis XVIII