Longisquama Insignis (Skeletal Analysis of a Kyrgyz Diapsid) Lyrics


A holotype with intergumentary appendages

Projecting from the back of its skeleton

Seven, radiating in a fanlike pattern

Spaced close together, tips unpreserved

Proximal straight section divided

Into three longitudinal lobes

Raised rugae and deep interstices

Not unlike a bone-made rosary bead

Interior flange up to the tip of the distal section

Ridged and separated by a grooved axis

Projecting perpendicular or curving in S-shapes

Vertebrae spines to anchorage points

Resembling raised knobs, slightly convex

Tubular in life, like feathers into a folicle

Long scales, pseudosuchian, proto-archosaurian

A gift of the lacustrine fluvial Madygen