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Title: Bulletin - United States National Museum
Identifier: bulletinunitedst1101920unitfo (find matches)
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subjects: Science
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132 BULLETIN 110, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. (Amer. Journ. Sci., 1884, vol. 27, p. 329). The present pelvis resembles that of Cerntomurus in its general features, but there is no foramen in the pubis. There are five vertebrae in the sacrum, firmly coossified with each other, as are also the sacral spines. The sacral vertebrae are grooved below, with the sides of the centra excavated. The caudals have the diplosphenal articulation, and the first caudal bears a che-\Ton. All the bones preserved are very delicate, and some of them, at least, are apparently pneumatic. The sacrum measures 15 inches in length, and the 12 caudals following occupy a space of 31 inches. The known remains indicate a rejitile about 8 or 10 feet in length. The known remains of all the above species are from the Ceratops Beds (T.ance formation) of Wyoming. The above description by Marsli constitutes practically all that has been written ' regarding this species, and the type specimen is here figured for the first time. That OmitJiomimus sedens Marsh is closely related to Ornithomimus altus Lambe recently described by Osborn ^ is at once apparent upon the most casual
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Fig. 67.—Sacrum or ORNiTHOMiMts sedens M.irsh. Ventral view. Type No. 4736. U.s.N.M. J nat. size, ac, acetabulum; //, ilium: Is, ccvlesced ischia, shown in outline; I.p, ischiac peduncle or the ilium; O, open- ing between cocssified ischia; P, pubis; P.p., pubic peduncle of the ilium; Si, S., S3, Si, sacral vertebrae 1 to 4. comparison, and, as I have attempted to show, good reasons for their generic separation does not exist at this time. The sacrum of Ornithomimus sedens is unusually well preserved and is worthy of a detailed description, especially since this portion of the beautiful skeleton described by Osborn (pi. 35, fig. 2) is somewhat imperfect. Sacrum.—The sacral region in Ornithomimus sedens consists of five coossified vertebrae, but of these only four are preserved; the presence of a fifth is clearly indicated by the roughly rugose articular end of the most anterior vertebra for close union with the vertebra which preceded it. In position this missing vertebra corresponds to dorsal 13 in the StrufJiiomimus skeleton as described and figured by Osborn in the paper cited above. Thus in Ornithomimus sedens and in Ornith- omimus altus it would appear that only four vertebrae functioned as sacrals. > .\. terminal phalanx of the fore foot of this species was figured by Marsh (see figs. 49 to .52, p.26.'>. Dinosaurs of North .\merica) but the basis of the identification is unlinowii to me. ! Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. :i.5, pp. 73S-76I. 1917.

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