. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 258 Annals of the South African Museum. of the lateral wall it is clear that the posterior part of the brain-case is fairly wide and not very high, with a mass of bone below its ventral floor; its anterior extent is A not great, and it housed only the hind-brain; the mid-brain and thalamen- cephalon lay median to the epipterygoid, and the whole cerebrum must have been housed by the ethmoidal part, which, in this speci- men, has not been exposed. The lower jaw is char- acterised by the great width acr
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 258 Annals of the South African Museum. of the lateral wall it is clear that the posterior part of the brain-case is fairly wide and not very high, with a mass of bone below its ventral floor; its anterior extent is A not great, and it housed only the hind-brain; the mid-brain and thalamen- cephalon lay median to the epipterygoid, and the whole cerebrum must have been housed by the ethmoidal part, which, in this speci- men, has not been exposed. The lower jaw is char- acterised by the great width across the condyles and then, anteriorly, by the in- wardly curved sweep to the long and narrow symphysis; there do not appear to be any incisors, and there are no indications of molars whatsoever; the splenial is very intimately fused to the dentary; the coronoid is small, and the surangular strong; the angular is large, but extremely thin. The fore-limb is repre- sented by a good right humerus, which may be of the same animal as the right ulna, radius, and manus. The humerus is of a type distinct from that known in any other Therap- sid; there is a very large entepicondylar, but no ectepicondylar foramen; the delto-pectoral crest is very long; distally, it merges into the shaft; it curves inwards and does not lie along the anterior border as in the Gorgonopsians, Fig. 34.—Whaitsia major. A. Dorsal view of the right fore-foot. , R5694. x i. cl-c3 = centrals, i. = intermedium. R. = radius. r. =radiale. U. = ulna, u. =ulnare. 1-5. =distalia I-V. = Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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