- relatives,
avians are
neither the only
group nor the
first to
possess tarsometatarsi. In a
remarkable case of
parallel evolution, they were also present...
-
maximum length of 73.9 mm (2.91 in),
making it one of the
largest known tarsometatarsi of an enantiornithine. RAM 14306, an
incomplete coracoid, is bigger...
-
provisionally included in the
large species, but
exceed its more
complete tarsometatarsi in size and may
represent a
distinct and even
larger fourth species...
- were do****ented in 1910.
Cathartornis was
described on the
basis of 2
tarsometatarsi, 1
complete and 1
containing only the
distal end,
recovered from the...
- History, Science, and Art). By 1925,
Miller had ****igned
three more
tarsometatarsi and an
incomplete tibiotarsus to the genus. In 1932,
Hildegarde Howard...
-
small parrot with a
short and
robust tarsometatarsus resembling the
tarsometatarsi of
large African parrots in the
genera Psittacus,
Poicephalus and Coracopsis...
- the two
genera and
concluded that the
distal ends of
tibiotarsi and
tarsometatarsi were the same and that
Amphisagittarius should be
synonymised with Pelargopappus...
- can
reach up to 33%
based on the tarsometatarsus. A
comparison of the
tarsometatarsi of two B.
burmeisteri specimens, FM-P13259 and MLP-91 (lectotype), both...
- Pelec****
tirarensis is a
fossil pelican described from
several fragmentary tarsometatarsi from Late
Oligocene to
Middle Miocene deposits in the
Namba Formation...
- Aepyornithidae.
Osteohistological analysis of its femora, tibiotarsi, and
tarsometatarsi has also
revealed that D.
stirtoni was
extremely K-selected, likely...