A peer-reviewed version of this preprint was published in PeerJ on 17 September 2015. View the peer-reviewed version (peerj.com/articles/1245), which is the preferred citable publication unless you specifically need to cite this preprint. Hendrickx C, Araújo R, Mateus O. 2015. The non-avian theropod quadrate I: standardized terminology with an overview of the anatomy and function. PeerJ 3:e1245 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1245 1 The nonavian theropod quadrate I: standardized terminology and 2 overview of the anatomy, function and ontogeny 3 4 Keywords: quadrate; terminology; anatomy; ontogeny; theropod; dinosaur 5 6 Christophe Hendrickx1,2 7 1 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Departamento de Ciências da Terra, Faculdade de Ciências e 8 Tecnologia, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal. 9 2 Museu da Lourinhã, 9 Rua João Luis de Moura, 2530-158, Lourinhã, Portugal. 10
[email protected] PrePrints 11 12 Ricardo Araújo2,3 13 2 Museu da Lourinhã, 9 Rua João Luis de Moura, 2530-158, Lourinhã, Portugal. 14 3 Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, PO Box 750395, 15 75275-0395, Dallas, Texas, USA. 16
[email protected] 17 18 Octávio Mateus1,2 19 1 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Departamento de Ciências da Terra, Faculdade de Ciências e 20 Tecnologia, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal. 21 2 Museu da Lourinhã, 9 Rua João Luis de Moura, 2530-158, Lourinhã, Portugal. 22
[email protected] 23 PeerJ PrePrints | http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.379v1 | CC-BY 4.0 Open Access | received: 3 May 2014, published: 3 May 2014 1 24 ABSTRACT 25 By allowing the articulation of the mandible with the cranium, the quadrate of diapsids 26 and most other tetrapods plays an important role morphofunctionally.