postcranialadj.n.

1879 Philos. Trans. 1878 (Royal Soc.) 169 692 The postcranial part of the bone expands and bifurcates in order to allow the efferent branchial vessels to reach the anterior part of the dorsal aorta.

1913 Bull. Amer. Museum Nat. Hist. 32 563 The post-cranial skeleton.

1956 Biologia 2 231 The skull of the common lizard..has been described in detail previously... The present paper deals with its postcranial skeleton, i.e., the vertebral column, ribs, sternum, girdles and limbs.

1994 W. Maples & M. Browning Dead Men do tell Tales xiii. 217 Several skeletons: among them..the skull and postcranial remains of an elderly male and the skull-less, postcranial skeleton of a second elderly male.

1971 Nature 5 Feb. 407/2 Careful examination of the post-cranials of Limnopithecus..and the European fossil Pliopithecus indicates that such non-hominoid structural features as they have are ceboid-like rather than specifically cercopithecoid-like.

1998 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 353 614/2 The earliest known chiropteran fossils with reasonably complete postcranials appears to have been wholly capable of powered flight.

1966 Current Anthropol. 7 20/1 Nor is my argument that Neanderthals are intermediate between Pithecanthropines and modern man damaged by the demonstration that, post-cranially, Neanderthals differ insignificantly from modern form.

1987 Nature 21 May 209/2 The juxtaposition of an otherwise relatively derived H. erectus postcranium at ˜1.6 Myr..and a postcranially primitive H. habilis at ˜1.8 Myr..may imply an abrupt transition between these taxa in eastern Africa.

1999 Systematic Biol. 48 478/2 Sinonyx, a mesonychian from the Paleocene of Asia,..is well-preserved postcranially but remains undescribed.