Description
In tetra pods, cervical vertebrae are the vertebrae of the neck, immediately below the skull. Truncate vertebrae lie caudal of cervical vertebrae. In sauropod species, the cervical vertebrae bear cervical ribs. In lizards and saurian dinosaurs, the cervical ribs are large; in birds, they are small and completely fused to the vertebrae. The vertebral transverse processes of mammals are homologous to the cervical ribs of other amniocenteses.