- The
furcula (Latin for "little fork"; pl.:
furculae) or
wishbone is a
forked bone
found in most
birds and some
species of non-avian dinosaurs, and is formed...
- by
Victoria Megan Arbour et al.
proposed that the
presumed Dakotaraptor furculae in fact
represented a part of a turtle’s armor, the
entoplastron of Axestemys...
- dorsal, 5 sacral) and an
estimated 45–50
caudal vertebrae.
Gastralia and
furculae are
rarely preserved as
fossils but are
presumed to
occur in all allosaurids...
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bodies set them apart, or long legs and antennae, as well as well-developed
furculae;
these are the most
characteristic members of the order. The Entomobryomorpha...
- by
Victoria Megan Arbour et al.
proposed that the
presumed Dakotaraptor furculae in fact
represented a part of a turtle’s armor, the
entoplastron of Axestemys...
- of the
first known non-avian
dinosaurs to
preserve furcula found.
These furculae were
initially thought to be clavicles,
which led
Charles Lewis Camp to...
- was also present, but has only been
recognized since 1996; in some
cases furculae were
confused with gastralia. The ilium, the main hip bone, was m****ive...
-
along a road
later to
become the
Appian Way,
through the
Caudine Forks (
Furculae Caudinae), a
narrow mountain p**** near Benevento, Campania. The area round...
-
muscles are underdeveloped. They do not have
keeled sterna.
Their wishbones (
furculae) are
almost absent. They have
simplified wing
skeletons and musculature...
- and in most
cases furculae are a
standard feature not just of
theropods but of
saurischian dinosaurs. Up to late 2007
ossified furculae (i.e. made of bone...
