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Tibiotarsus
Tibiotarsus Tib`i*o*tar"sus, n.; pl. Tibiotarsi. (Anat.) The large bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the proximal part of the tarsus with the tibia.

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- The tibiotarsus is the large bone between the femur and the tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird. It is the fusion of the proximal part of the tarsus...
- the tibia to form the tibiotarsus, while the centralia are absent. The anterior (frontal) side of the dorsal end of the tibiotarsus (at the knee) contains...
- lower end), the right tibiotarsus (lacking part of the upper articular surface), upper and lower portions of the left tibiotarsus, as well as unidentified...
- tibiotarsus contrast with those of the carpometacarpus, ulna, and femur as being distinctly larger than other Leptoptilini species. The tibiotarsus lies...
- 1259–1263: tibiotarsus remains of small, possibly basal P****eriformes. A partial coracoid of a probable Muscicapoidea, possibly ****idae; distal tibiotarsus and...
- Egypt, dating to the late Eocene (Priabonian). The holotype, a right tibiotarsus discovered in 2008, represents the oldest record of pelicans to date...
- incomplete but elongated tibiotarsus and a cervical (neck) vertebra hailing from the Toolebuc Formation stratum. This holotype tibiotarsus (QM F12992) was found...
- synsacrum, the right and left thighs, the proximal right tibiotarsus, the right and left distal tibiotarsus, and the proximal right tarsometatarsus. "Antarcticavis...
- Moreno and Alcides Mercerart in 1891, the fossils being a left femur, tibiotarsus, fibula, and tarsometatarsus all from the same individual found in the...
- (14 in). The tibiotarsus is long, straight and robust, while the tarsometatarsus is notably short, only half the length of the tibiotarsus. This resembles...