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NUMBER 89 249<br />

in lateral view in Juncitarsus (most often convex in the Presbyornithidae)<br />

(Figure 8).<br />

TIBIOTARSUS.—A part of the distal, lateral condyle is the<br />

only adult specimen of Juncitarsus available for comparison. It<br />

differs from the Presbyornithidae in having the distal margin<br />

distinctly concave, not smoothly rounded.<br />

TARSOMETATARSUS.—The tarsometatarsus (Figure 9) is<br />

considerably more elongated and slender in Juncitarsus than in<br />

the Presbyornithidae; the intercotylar knob is much larger; the<br />

cotylae are deeper and narrower; the hypotarsus is lateromedially<br />

narrower and protmdes more caudally, with the crista lateralis<br />

as large as the crista medialis (the crista medialis is very<br />

low in the Presbyornithidae); and the shaft is rectangular in<br />

Presbyornis<br />

FIGURE 5.—Distal end of right humerus of Presbyornis pervetus, UCMP<br />

119399 (in mirror image), in anconal (left) and palmar (right) views.<br />

(a=attachment for the anterior articular ligament, 6=processus flexorius, c=<br />

sulcus M. scapulohumeralis, t/=scars for M. flexor carpi ulnaris.)<br />

Presbyornis<br />

FIGURE 4.—Proximal end of left humerus in anconal<br />

view. Juncitarsus gracillimus: proximal end USNM<br />

468466. Presbyornis pervetus: UCMP 126205; the<br />

shape of crista deltoidea, however, is based on USNM<br />

492550 (in mirror image). (a=area below caput humeri,<br />

6=scar for M. scapulohumeralis cranialis, c=fossa<br />

pneumotricipitalis ventralis, t/=scars for Mm. latissimus<br />

dorsi posterioris and anterioris.)<br />

both taxa but is laterally very compressed in Juncitarsus, not<br />

craniocaudally compressed as in Presbyornis (insufficiently<br />

known in Telmabates). The distal end essentially is very similar<br />

to the Presbyornithidae but is more laterally compressed;<br />

the foramen vasculare is as large as in the Presbyornithidae but<br />

is narrower mediolaterally, with its caudal opening situated<br />

slightly more proximad; and the scar for the hallux is situated<br />

more distally on the shaft.<br />

Presbyornis<br />

Juncitarsus<br />

FIGURE 6.—Right radiale in dorsal view (left) and in ventral view (right). Juncitarsus<br />

gracillimus: USNM 244333 (in mirror image). Presbyornis pervetus:<br />

USNM 492552. (a=excavation of dorsal side, 6=incisure.)

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