 | Baishya, G.; Kalita, A.; Chakraborty, A. 2001 Anatomy of the distal sesamoid of Indian one-horned rhinoceros. Indian Veterinary Journal 78 (September): 824-825, fig. 1 |
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| Distal sesamoid bone plays a vital role in keeping the heavy Indian one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in standing position as well as locomotion. This bone in domestic animals is widely studied (Raghavan, 1964; Getty, 1975 and Nickel et al., 1986). However, reports regarding detailed g... |
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| Stachiew, M. 1998 Nepal - looking for rhinos with an elephant. Really Rhinos 12 (2): 4 |
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| Illustration of the skull of Rhinoceros unicornis half-size. |
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| Bales, G.S. 1998 Patterns of foramen magnum size and shape in Rhinocerotoidea (Ceratomorpha: Perissodactyla). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18 (Suppl. To no. 3): 25A-26A |
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| INTRODUCTION: The foramen magnum (FM) surrounds the upper cervical spinal cord near the cervico-medullary junction. In fossil crania, it may provide the only data (indirectly) for central nervous system (CNS) size in the absence of preserved endocasts. cranial cavities, or vertebral canals. It ma... |
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| Bordoloi, C.C.; Borthakur, S.; Talukdar, S.R.; Kalita, S.N.; Baishya, G.; Kalita, H. 1995 Mandible of the great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). Indian Veterinary Journal 72 (August): 838-842, figs. 1-2 |
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| Rhinoceros unicornis, Kaziranga, Assam, India. The mandible is the largest bone of the skull. It consists of two symmetrical halves which ossified at the body, both in adult and in young. The two halves ossified at the symphysis mandible. The lingual surface was wide, smooth and lightly concav... |
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| Bordoloi, C.C.; Borthakur, S.; Talukdar, S.R.; Kalita, S.N.; Baishya, G.; Kalita, H. 1995 Mandible of the great Indian one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). Indian Veterinary Journal 72 (August): 838-842, figs. 1-2 |
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| Rhinoceros unicornis, Kaziranga, Assam, India (n=7). The skull has the form of an irregular triangle, the base of which is caudal.
Dorsal surface, is formed by occipital, interparietal, parietal, frontal and nasal bones. Interparietal bone was fused in adults. The dorsal surface wasdivided in... |
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| Wucher, M. 1994 A technique for making dental impressions and casts of immobilised black rhinoceros (Diceros bicorns) and white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum): pp. 164-167, figs. 1-2
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| Dental impressions - techniques. Abstract - A technique is described for taking dental impressions of immobilised black and white rhinoceros. The resulting casts can be used to assess accurately the age of animals by using existing criteria. The technique involves using a gag to gain access to... |
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| Bales, G.S. 1994 Skull evolution in living and fossil rhinoceroses: morphometric analyses of within and between group variation. Journal of Morphology 220 (3): 322-323 |
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| Rhinoceroses comprise a long-lived and once diverse group with a relatively large fossil record and a few surviving taxa. Skull evolution was studied using living analogues as gauges of intraspecific variation. Analyses were done on 15 extinct and 4 extant genera using 19 measurements of adult cr... |
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| Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 |
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| While ancestral forms of rhinoceros possessed cutting incisor teeth and, in some, canines, these are absent in the black rhinoceros whose dental formula is:
I 0/0, C 0/0, P 3/3, m 3/3 = 24
The premolar teeth are molariform, all the cheekteeth being broad-faced and adapted to grinding up the food. |
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| Skinner, J.D.; Smithers, R.H.N. 1990 The mammals of the southern African subregion, new edition. Pretoria, University of Pretoria, pp. i-xxxii, 1-771 |
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| The dental formula of the white rhinoceros, C. simum, is: I 0/0, C 0/0, P 3/3, M 3/3 = 24 |
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| The upper and lower second molars are the largest of the cheekteeth. All cheekteeth are broad-faced and have convoluted enamel layers on their biting surfaces and are adapted to grinding up the food. In the deciduous dentition they have four premolars on either side in the upper and lower jaws,... |
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