10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TARSOMETATARSI»
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tarsometatarsi in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds
Table 6.1 (Continued) AFRICA REGION TAXON MATERIAL SAMPLE AGE SIZE
CITATIONS Seymour Island Delphinornis arctowskii tarsometatarsi 2 late Eocene
(Telm 7, La Meseta Fm.) S Myrcha et al., 2002 Seymour Island cf. Delphinornis ...
Dr. Gareth Dyke, Gary Kaiser, 2011
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The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand
The femoral/tarsometatarsal ratio of moa is 1:1 for emeids, or 1:1.1 for
dinornithids, which means that moa had very short tarsometatarsi. Elephantbirds
had relatively longer tarsometatarsi than moa, but they too had much shorter
tarsometatarsi ...
T. H. Worthy, Richard N. Holdaway, 2002
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Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
TIBIOTARSI 40- 30- 20- TARSOMETATARSI 200 220 240 260 320 360 400
LENGTH (mm) 140 160 180 ZOO Fig. 4 - Length frequency histograms for leg
bones of A. didiformis from Makirikiri. Femora (n = 207), tibiotarsi (n = 268), ...
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Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
e 4 2-1 FEMORA TARSOMETATARSI Pyramid Valley n m д n n с о о О А
Hamilton! Southland Dun*« гГЬп n~m n n п Papitowal 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 20 30 -РЧ- 1C 17 IS 18 20 21 22 23 24 Length cm Fig. 8 - Length frequency ...
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Cretaceous-tertiary High-latitude Palaeoenvironments: James ...
Currently, the systematics of fossil spheniscids is based on isolated bones due to
the fragmentary nature of the findings and more commonly on tarsometatarsi (
Jadwiszczak 2001, 2003) and humeri (Simpson 1946). Moreover, most of the ...
Jane E. Francis, Duncan Pirrie, J. Alistair Crame, 2006
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Biodiversity Response to Climate Change in the Middle ...
Measurements are mean ± SD with range in parentheses. table 12.3
Measurements of Tarsometatarsi of Numenius Species Compared to.
PROVENANCE 8530: Location 644, Velvet Room, grid 1, level 10 (mixed); 35740
, 35759, 35809, and ...
Anthony D. Barnosky, 2004
In the Eogruidae, Eogrus aeola Wetmore, 1934, was originally based on several
specimens of tarsometatarsi and tibiotarsi from the late Eocene of Irdin Manha in
Inner Mongolia, China. Only a single wing element was referred, a phalanx of ...
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United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
Although measurements of the two series overlapped, the fossil grebe (assigned
to A. occidentalis lucasi) tended to have longer legs, with tarsometatarsi relatively
broader and deeper of shaft, but narrower proximally. Measurements of the ...
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Eocene Biodiversity: Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled ...
The small flamingo, Juncitarsus gracillimus Olson and Feduccia (1980), is
identified based on three tarsometatarsi (left distal end, UCM 68688; right distal
end fragment, UCM 68779; left proximal end, UCM 68756) and a right distal
humerus ...
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Antarctic Palaeoenvironments and Earth-Surface Processes:
Tarsometatarsi and humeri (the most characteristic elements of the penguin
skeleton) have long been used for taxonomic purposes, and in most cases have
been designated as holotypes (Jadwiszczak 2009). The phylogenetic
relationships ...
M.J. Hambrey, P.F. Barker, P.J. Barrett, 2013
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TARSOMETATARSI»
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Kea, Kaka, Kakapo
... hindlimb proportions are unusual compared to those of other parrots: its femora are especially long and its tarsometatarsi are especially short (Livezey 2005). «Scientific American, Mar 13»
The other turkey
These are the type (and referred) elements of Proagriocharis kimballensis, from Martin & Tate (1970): a coracoid, a few tarsometatarsi, and a spur core. «Scientific American, Jan 13»
Infection affects embryonic development - Mycoplasma iowae in …
... and bowing of tarsometatarsi (shank bones); enlarged hock joints; slight widening of the growth plate in proximal tibiotarsi; shortening of the vertebral column; ... «WorldPoultry.net, Mar 11»