-
meridiungulates contain the
somewhat tapir-like
pyrotheres and astrapotheres, the
mesaxonic litopterns and the
diverse notoungulates. As a whole, meridiungulates...
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separated during extension. The five-fingered hand of R.
balochistanensis is
mesaxonic (i.e. has a
central digit) with
three weight-bearing
central digits equipped...
- clade. The saddle-shaped
configuration of the
navicular joints and the
mesaxonic construction of the
front and hind feet also
indicates a
close relationship...
- hand is
ectaxonic (the axis p****es
through the
fourth digit)
rather than
mesaxonic (the axis p****ing
through the
third digit) as seen in
monkeys and apes...
- Late
Permian of Italy,
possibly representing the
oldest known fossils of
mesaxonic archosauromorphs.
Protochirotherium is the
earliest known chirotheriid...
-
position of the weight-bearing axis of the foot, as
opposed to a more
mesaxonic position where the weight-bearing axis runs
through digit III. The development...
- broad.
Creodonts had
generalized postcranial skeletons.
Their limbs were
mesaxonic (with the axis of the foot
provided by the
middle of
their five digits)...
- is the case in the feet of most
bipedal dinosaurs, the hand or foot is
mesaxonic. An
entaxonic hand or foot has its
dominant digit medially (either digit...
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around the very
small canines. Scarrittia, the best-known leontiniid, had
mesaxonic (enlarged
central digit) feet with
reduced lateral digits. Toxodontids...
- and
bipedal pes prints, with the
middle (third) toe
being the
longest (
mesaxonic) and all toes
bearing sharp,
pointed claw impressions,
typical of theropod...
