tarsometatarsus

This was a sizeable bird for its time, with a tarsometatarsus 46.8mm long.

Only the end of the tarsometatarsus remains, but this is complete and even not very much abraded.

Both are known only from single fossilized bones of the foot - the tarsometatarsus.

The tarsometatarsus forms the upper part of the foot, digits make up the toes.

Newton and Gadow measured the tarsometatarsus with 81 to 87 mm.

On the other hand, the tarsometatarsus shows a peculiar mix of characters found in modern and primitive forms.

The tibiotarsus is comparatively long and the tarsometatarsus short.

The tarsometatarsus was about 45 cm long.

It was described by Gerald Mayr in 2010, from an incomplete tarsometatarsus.

The tarsometatarsus is a bone that is only found in the lower leg of birds and certain dinosaurs.

Despite this, the tarsometatarsus of birds is often referred to as just the tarsus or metatarsus.

Walker never described the fusion of the tarsometatarsus as opposite, but rather as "Only partial".

The genus and species were described from a single partial bone which Ameghino considered to be a tarsometatarsus section.

The tibiotarsus is the large bone between the femur and the tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird.

It also had a disproportionally large tarsometatarsus.

It was later redescribed as the right tarsometatarsus of an enantiornithine bird by Chiappe in 1992.

Subsequently, the tarsometatarsus and the femur piece turned out to be from Paraptenodytes antarcticus.

The specific epithet refers to the slender and elongated tarsometatarsus, or lower leg bone, of the species.

The holotype specimen is a fossil tarsometatarsus and phalanx.

The holotype is a right tarsometatarsus collected in 2008 in south-east Mauritius.

The tarsometatarsus had a small hypotarsus with a single simple crest and devoid of foramina for tendons.

The large and stout tarsometatarsus shows that it might have been the largest known taxon within the genus Dryolimnas.

A number of birds poses spurs on their feet, usually springing from the lower portion of the tarsometatarsus bone.

Feduccia's point about the tarsometatarsus (the combined upper foot and ankle bone) is correct, but Walker did not use this reasoning in his original paper.

The metatarsals of the foot were relatively short and fused to each other and to the lower ankle bones, forming a tarsometatarsus.