The foramina enclosed by the transverse processes are large; and
have, on the internal side, their long diameter obliquely transverse
to the axis of the sacrum.
The inferior faces of the centra are slightly concave in the first
three. The first and fourth have slight hypophysial keels.
The neural canal is very wide and depressed in the first, but
decreases rapidly backwards, becoming extremely small in the last.
_Caudal region_ (Plate VI., Fig. 6).--(Description based upon the
first four.)
The centra of the caudal vertebræ are rather long, narrow, and
greatly depressed in the middle; they decrease in size gradually
backward. The pedicles and laminæ are short and thin, enclosing a
small neural canal. The neural spines point directly back, being
almost parallel with the axis of the centrum. They are slender and
tuberous at the extremity. The transverse processes are very long,
wide, and thin, thickened somewhat at the ends, and project directly
out; they decrease in size backwards. From the persistence of the
neural canal, and from its comparative size, it would seem as if the
tail was considerably larger than that of the elephant.
_Measurements of Vertebræ._
_Cervical region_ (Plate VI., Fig. 11).
M.
Diameter of cervical (vertical) ·079
Diameter of cervical (transverse) ·111
Diameter of cervical (fore-and-aft) ·051
Extreme length of prolongation of pedicles for
zygapophyses ·089
Long diameter of vertebraterial canal ·040
Width of pedicles ·035
_Dorsal region_ (Plate VI., Figs. 2 and 3).
M.
In anterior region: Diameter of centrum (fore-and-aft) ·075
Diameter of centrum (vertical) ·062
Diameter of centrum (transverse) ·142
In posterior region (Plate VI., Fig. 3).: Diameter
of last dorsal (vertical) ·087
Diameter of last dorsal (transverse) ·110
Average width throughout the series of neural canal ·097
Width of transverse process (anterior dorsal)
(Fig. 2, Plate VI.) ·075
Length of lamina from prezygs. to post-prezygs.
(Fig. 2, Plate VI.) ·12
Length of transverse process (middle dorsal).
(Fig. 3, Plate VI.) ·055
Vertical length of anterior dorsal from tip of spine
to hypapophysial keel ·183
Width between inner margins of metapophyses
(last dorsal) ·172
_Lumbar region_--Last lumbar (Plate VI., Figs. 4 and 5).
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