The _calcaneum_ (Plate IX., Fig. 4) is long and compressed, with its
upper and lower margins straight and nearly parallel; its tuberosity
is large. The face for the cuboid is small.
The _navicular_ (Plate IX., Fig. 6) is proportionately longer and
narrower than it is in the modern horse. The internal and middle
cuneiforms were probably separate.
_Metatarsals_ (Plate IX., Fig. 7).--Three in number. Are very much
shorter proportionately than in the modern horse. In shape they
are compressed and arched forward. The distal ends are flattened
vertically, arched forward, and deeply grooved in the middle.
The _phalanges_ (Plate IX., Fig. 7) are very short, rather stout, and
very smooth and convex above.
The ungual phalanges are very thin and crescent shaped.
_Measurements._
ASTRAGALUS.
M.
Greatest width ·029
Greatest length ·022
Length of navicular facet ·017
Width of navicular facet ·012
Length of tibial trochleæ externally ·016
CALCANEUM.
M.
Total length ·058
Total width ·019
Depth in front ·022
Length of heel ·035
Depth of heel ·018
Length of cuboid facet ·014
NAVICULAR.
M.
Width ·009
Length ·010
PHALANGES.
M.
Length of first phalanx ·022
Width of first phalanx ·012
Length of second phalanx ·013
Width of second phalanx ·010
Length of ungual phalanx ·005
Width of ungual phalanx ·010
PALÆOSYOPS, Leidy.
Hayden's Geological Survey of Montana, 1871.--Proceedings
Academy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1871, p.
118.--_Limnohyus._--Marsh, American Journal Science and Arts,
1872, p. 124.
_Generic characters._--The dentition is full, I. 3, C. 1, Pm. 4, M.
3; the same in lower jaw. The internal cones of the superior molars
isolated from the crescentoid crests. One inner tubercle on the
last three premolars. One internal cone on the last superior molar.
In lower jaw, true molars with four acute tubercles alternating in
pairs and connected by oblique crests. The last molar adds a fifth
posterior tubercle. The last premolar lacks the posterior inner
tubercle. The canines are in continuity with the incisors.
A broad, triangular forehead. A wide zygoma. Long, projecting nasals.
Large temporal fossæ. High sagittal crest. Prominent and nearly
vertical occiput.
Palæosyops major, Leidy.
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