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Excerpt from Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, in Cambridge, 1960-1961, Vol. 123
Since the illustrated bones of A. Iong-irmana are most surely not from one individual, it is important to point out that there may be as much as a 13-per cent variation in size between the largest and the smallest specimens of the same element. 011 making comparisons of bones that articulate with each other, as, for example, the radius and ulna (figs. 7 and this size dif ference becomes at once apparent.
The terms more feline or more canine used in the fol lowing pages do not imply that these similarities indicate close taxonomic relationships between these forms and Amphicyon. They are in all probability habitus characters.
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