Fore-foot of the wolf - The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (17536906444)

Title: The American Museum journal

Identifier: americanmuseumjo05amer (find matches)

Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)

Authors: American Museum of Natural History

Subjects: Natural history

Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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26 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL Another characteristic of all modern Carnivora is the union of two bones of the wrist, the scaphoid and lunar, which are dis- tinct in most other animals. This gives additional strength to the thumb side of the very flexible wrist. In the Creodonts, these two bones were separate, and it is probable that they were separate in the earliest ancestors of the true Carnivores. Many

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nr ffi FIG. 6. FORE-FOOT OF THE WOLF Shows the compact, slender foot, and the scaphoid and lunar bones of the wrist united (sc- hi) as in all true Carnivora

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