1970 – Alberto Malatesta, Cynotherium Sardous Studiati. An Exinct Canid From The Pleistocene Of Sardinia

CONTENTS – INDICE

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

• Purpose
• Preceding papers
• Discovery of the site and excavations
• Topography and stratígraphy of the site
• Fauna

TAXONOMY

DESCRIPTION AND COMPARISON OF CYNOTHERIUM SKELETAL SYSTEM

• Skull
• Mandible
• Teeth
• Upper tootb-row
• Lower tooth-row
• Functional interpretation of jaws and teeth
• Vertebral column
• Cervícal, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae Sacrum
• Caudal vertebrae
• Scapula
• Ribs
• Humerus
• Radius
• Ulna
• Forepaw bones
• Relative proportions and function of fore-limb bones
• Innominate
• Femur
• Tibia
• Fibula
• Hindpaw bones
• Relative proportions and function of hind-limb bones

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

RIASSUNTO E CONCLUSIONI

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG UND SCHLUSSFOLGERUNGEN

RUSSIAN SUMMARY

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