Gills? On a SAUROPOD? At this time period? In this formation? Localized entirely at the neck's base?

Описание: We've talked before about how animals with long necks have to overcome the 'dead space problem' to be able to successfully breathe. One worker, Henry H. Gale, came up with quite the theory of how sauropods like Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, and Diplodocus may have done so. Basically, he thought that they had gills, or something very much like them. According to him , they may have used slits at the base of the neck to breathe, leaving the esophagus out of the process except for smelling things.

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Sources:

Gale, H. H. (1997).
Breathing through a long neck: sauropod lung ventilation.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(Suppl. to No. 3):48A

Gale, H. H. (1998).
Lung ventilation costs of short-necked dinosaurs.
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Wedel, M. J. (2003).
Vertebral pneumaticity, air sacs, and the physiology of sauropod dinosaurs.
Paleobiology, 29(2), 243-255.

Wedel, M. J. (2007).
Postcranial pneumaticity in dinosaurs and the origin of the avian lung.
University of California, Berkeley.
Retrieved from: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.3267
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Cieri, R. L., & Farmer, C. G. (2016).
Unidirectional pulmonary airflow in vertebrates: a review of structure, function, and evolution.
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retrieved from https://farmer.biology.utah.edu/manus...
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