. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. PELOROVIS OLDOWA YENSIS RECK 285. Figs. 31-36. 31, medial view of left olecranon 1952, BK II, 273 with its front edge towards top of page ; 32, posterior view of distal end of same radius ; 33, lateral view of distal end of left radius 1955, BK II, 294 ; 34, dorsal view of top articular surface of right radius I953» BK II Extension, 425 with the anterior edge towards bottom of page ; 35, dorsal view of left radius 1955, BK II, 294 ; 36, dorsal view of top articular surface of left metacarpal 1957, BK II, 1037 with anterior edge towar
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. PELOROVIS OLDOWA YENSIS RECK 285. Figs. 31-36. 31, medial view of left olecranon 1952, BK II, 273 with its front edge towards top of page ; 32, posterior view of distal end of same radius ; 33, lateral view of distal end of left radius 1955, BK II, 294 ; 34, dorsal view of top articular surface of right radius I953» BK II Extension, 425 with the anterior edge towards bottom of page ; 35, dorsal view of left radius 1955, BK II, 294 ; 36, dorsal view of top articular surface of left metacarpal 1957, BK II, 1037 with anterior edge towards top of page, a = high origin of flexor carpi ulnaris muscle which is a peculiarity of Pelorovis, b = lateral facet men- tioned in character 78, c = lateral tubercle mentioned in character 79, e = scaphoid facet and d = ridge between scaphoid and lunate facets mentioned in character 81, g = swollen distal end of radius mentioned in character 80, / = edge of unciform facet of metacarpal mentioned in character 85. is the absence of a projection towards the posterior end of the upper surface of the magnum-trapezoid. 84. The projecting back edge of the lunate is narrowly pointed in Hippotragus in medial view, but not in the other genera or Pelorovis. 85. The unciform facet at the top of the metacarpal is angled in Hippotragus but not in Pelorovis, Oryx or Bovini (Text-fig. 36). Among the limb bone characters of Pelorovis were three which might be valid as specific or generic characters, but which were not seen in Bovini or Hippotragini. These were the small sustentaculum on the calcaneum, the antero-posteriorly long infraspinatus insertion on the humerus (PL 4), and the flexor carpi ulnaris origin on the medial side of the olecranon which extended almost to the top of the bone (Text-fig. 31). 86. Bovini have wider cervical vertebrae than Hippotragini. This may be owing to allometry at least in part, but the long cervical vertebrae of a large form. Please note that these images a
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