. Description of new carnivores from the Miocene of western Nebraska. Carnivora, Fossil; Paleontology; Paleontology. PETERSON : NEW CARNIVORES FROM MIOCENE OF WESTERN NEBRASKA 231 In the material belonging to a skeleton of Daphcenodon in Amherst College, Massachusetts, now in the Carnegie Museum,15 there is an os penis of very large size, and also different in its general shape from that described above (see Fig. 27, 1).. Fig. 27. Os Penis of D. superbus. h nat. size. 1, superior and lateral views of os penis, Amherst specimen ; 2, superior and lateral views of os penis with skeleton No. 1589a
. Description of new carnivores from the Miocene of western Nebraska. Carnivora, Fossil; Paleontology; Paleontology. PETERSON : NEW CARNIVORES FROM MIOCENE OF WESTERN NEBRASKA 231 In the material belonging to a skeleton of Daphcenodon in Amherst College, Massachusetts, now in the Carnegie Museum,15 there is an os penis of very large size, and also different in its general shape from that described above (see Fig. 27, 1).. Fig. 27. Os Penis of D. superbus. h nat. size. 1, superior and lateral views of os penis, Amherst specimen ; 2, superior and lateral views of os penis with skeleton No. 1589a, Car. Mus. Cat. Vert. Foss. Thus its shaft is more elliptical in cross-section, especially toward the posterior end, and it has a less complex curvature at the anterior end. It is, however, deeply grooved near the anterior end as in the smaller specimen, though not bisected, but suddenly expanded to a round spout with many small tubercles on the anterior border. How much longer this bone was is rather difficult to say, but it would seem that it is broken off immediately in front of the rugose surface for the attach- ments of muscles to the pubes. Whether the larger bone represents the fully adult stage of development or pertains to another species cannot now be fully determined. If, on the other hand, the two different bones represent fully adult forms there is apparently a great range of variation of this bone in this genus. The Fore Limb. (Plates LXXVIII-LXXX.) Scapula (Plate LXXVIII). The scapula is well preserved and completely represented in the type specimen as well as the younger specimen found with it. This important bone of the fore limb displays a number of rather surprising features and probably sheds considerable light on the characters of the scapula in Daphwnus, which is not yet known. The bone as a whole reveals a curious combination of the features of the scapula of the tiger and the bear, and shows less similarity to that of the Canidae. As in the tiger, the b
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