. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 66 Annals of the South African Museum. Femur.—Lying in the left acetabulum is the proximal half of the left femur. The femur was a slender bone, whose proximal end is not expanded as it is in Diademodon. The head is flexed inwardly on the shaft and has a very pronounced swelling on the ventral side, greater than that seen in Moschops or in the femur figured by Gregory as Aelurosaurus (?). Between the outer end of the proximal surface and the external trochanteric margin the bone is thin with a sharpl
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 66 Annals of the South African Museum. Femur.—Lying in the left acetabulum is the proximal half of the left femur. The femur was a slender bone, whose proximal end is not expanded as it is in Diademodon. The head is flexed inwardly on the shaft and has a very pronounced swelling on the ventral side, greater than that seen in Moschops or in the femur figured by Gregory as Aelurosaurus (?). Between the outer end of the proximal surface and the external trochanteric margin the bone is thin with a sharply rounded edge—the collum femoris. The bone as a whole is com- pressed antero-posteriorly and widened laterally. The trochanter. 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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