Morphological and metrical variation in skulls from San Miguel Island, California : II. The foramen magnum: shape, size, correlations / by Bruno Oetteking.

  • Oetteking, Bruno, 1871-
Date:
1928
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Credit: Morphological and metrical variation in skulls from San Miguel Island, California : II. The foramen magnum: shape, size, correlations / by Bruno Oetteking. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the temporal lines and the smallness of the mastoid processes in No. 895. Differences of type are an indubitable indi¬ cation of heterogeneous group composition. Our small series comprises three specimens co¬ inciding with the type of No. 895, and two with No. 891. But, although differing in cranial contour, they all represent the dolichocranial skull form and as such the Southwestern repre¬ sentatives of dolichocrany in contrast with the Northern or, still more distinct, the Northeast¬ ern, dolichocranial area. [347]