The pelvic bones as a whole constitute the analogue of the scapulae with respect to their function as a part of the mechanism of locomotive and supportive apparatus of the horse.
The scapulae are flat bones which are attached to the posterior surface of the thoracic frame, on which they are freely movable, covering a tract extending from the second to the seventh rib.
The outlines of the scapulae can be well seen; they cover the ribs from the second to the seventh inclusive.
In practice it is not very easy to identify any one spine with certainty: one method is to start from the prominent first thoracic and to count down; another is to join the lower angles of the two scapulae (fig.
Years previously I had the pleasure of showing to Professor Marsh the remarkable characters of the jaw, shoulder-girdle bones, and scapulae in the Greensand Pterodactyles while the American fossils were still undiscovered.
Chelonians possess a pair of bones termed coracoids which have no connexion with a sternum; and their scapulae are formed of two widely divergent bars, divided by a deeper notch than is found in any fossil reptiles.
The humeral articulation with the coracoid is unlike the condition shown in other Ornithosaurs] There is no approach to this transverse position of the scapulae among birds.
These differences are probably associated with an absence of the remarkable mode of union of the scapulae with the dorsal vertebrae.
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