The marine mammals in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh / by Sir Wm. Turner.

  • William Turner
Date:
1912
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Credit: The marine mammals in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh / by Sir Wm. Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and intermedium fused, ulnare, pisiform, four distal carpalia; pentadactylous, diminishing in length from pollex to minimus. Pelvic bone 12 f inches long, iliac crest in almost same plane as base of sacrum. Femur 6| inches long, tibia 13^=^^ inches, fibula fused at upper end, 13J inches. Pes pentadactylous, liallux and minimus the longest; the customary seven tarsal bones. Skull 15| inches long, over vertex 21J inches; zygomatic breadtli 11 inches, cranial between squamous sutures 7^ inches; width of anterior nares 3]- inches, sagittal length 4 j inches; hard palate 7 inches long, 4y®Q inches wide; mandible lOj inches long. Teeth with relatively small crowns, no secondary cusps; p.c. 5 5 5 5‘ Challenger Collection. 3. Skull and five Cervical Vertebrae of a large female (/) from Betsy Cove, Kerguelen. Basi-cranial joint nearly closed. Skull, length 11| inches, over vertex 164 inches; breadth, zygomatic 8J inches, cranial 7 inches; width of anterior nares 2 inches, sagittal diameter 3J inches ; hard palate, length 5 inches, greatest width 3f inches. Mandible, length 74 inches. ••r fmr 0 o Crowns of teeth small, no secondary cusps; p.c. -4 . o o Vertebrae, atlas, axis, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, plates not fused with bodies. Challenger Collection. 4. Skull, adult, male. Length 19-|- inches, over vertex 25 inches; breadth, zygomatic 13f inches, cranial at squamous sutures 8| inches ; length of hard palate 9f inches; greatest width of anterior nares 4 inches. 4 4 Mandible, length 13^ inches. Dentition; p.c. - -. Cranial crests as in No. 1. See Challenger Report, in which, in error, the skull is said to have been obtained in Heard Island. Macquarrie Island. Donor—Dr J. Halliday Scott, Dunedin, N.Z. 5. Skull of young female from whicli the brain had been removed {d in Challenger Report). Length in straiglit line 11 inches, over vertex 144 inches. Breadth, zygomatic 74 inches, cranial 6§ inches. IMandible length 64 inches, of symphysis 2] inches. Anterior nares, sagittal diameter 2f inches, transverse 1 j inch. Chrivstmas Harbour, Kerguelen, January 1874. Challenger Collection.