Laurasiatheria

Laurel Falls Trail, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Sevier County, Tennessee, US

Foles, Ilha do Cardoso, Cananéia, São Paulo, BR

Figure 3.Contrasting facial aspects for Glauconycteris cf. poensis (left) and Niumbaha superba (right). Top panels show differences in nostril shape and orientation from photographs of live bats, bottom drawings show difference in ear and tragus structure. Glauconycteris poensis and Niumbaha superba are the type species of Glauconycteris and Niumbaha.

Figure 9.Morphometric distinction between Olinguito subspecies. Both sexes combined. Morphometric dispersion (first two components of a principal component analysis) of 17 adultskulls based on 13 cranial measurements (see Appendix 1, Table A4). (Dental measurements also discretely partition these subspecies in a separate principal component analysis, not shown.) Black dots = Bassaricyon neblina neblina; gray triangles = Bassaricyon neblina osborni; red diamonds = Bassaricyon neblina ruber; blue squares = Bassaricyon neblina hershkovitzi.

Figure 3.Dorsal (A) and ventral (B) views of the cranium of Sturnira bakeri (QCAZ 14635 ♀) from El Oro, Ecuador. Dorsal (C) and ventral (D) views of the cranium of Sturnira burtonlimi (ROM 104294 ♂) from Chiriquí, Panama. Scale bar = 5 mm.

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Skeleton of Right Whale Showing Comparative Size of Man. A--Bones which represent legs.

Pteronotus festivus.

Baleine du Nord.

Rhachianectes glaneus, Cope. California Gray whale Rhachianectes glaucus.. Length 41 feet. (After Scammon.)

Phoca barbata sur le pont de la Princesse-Alice.

California Sea Lion. Zalophus californianus (Less.), Allen

Delphinus delphis, Linne. Common Dolphin.. Length, 6 1/2 feet. (From a sketch by J. H. Emerton)

Steller's Sea Lion. Eumetopias Stelleri (Less), Peters

Laurel Falls Trail, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Sevier County, Tennessee, US

Foles, Ilha do Cardoso, Cananéia, São Paulo, BR

Figure 4.Length of the 2nd phalanx (2PL) of the 3rd digit vs. the 1st phalanx (1PL) of the 3rd digit. Several species of Glauconycteris are shown (closed diamond), as is Niumbaha superba (open diamond), and for comparison, two species of Scotophilus (open triangle; a ‘typical’ African vespertilionid bat). The ratio of 2PL/1PL is significantly greater in Glauconycteris than in Niumbaha (with a theoretical 1:1 ratio indicated by the dashed line). Data as reported in Table 2.

Figure 10.Skulls of Olinguito subspecies. From left to right: Bassaricyon neblina neblina (AMNH 66753, holotype, old adult female, Las Maquinas, Ecuador); Bassaricyon neblina osborni (FMNH 88476, holotype, adult male, Munchique, 2000 m, Cauca Department, Colombia); Bassaricyon neblina hershkovitzi (FMNH 70724, paratype, adult male, San Antonio, Agustin, Huila District, Colombia); Bassaricyon neblina ruber (FMNH 70723, paratype, adult male, Guapantal, 2200 m, Urrao, Antioquia Department, Colombia). Scale bar = 50 mm.

Figure 4.Lateral views of the cranium and mandible of A Sturnira bakeri (QCAZ 14635 ♀). Lateral views of the cranium and mandible of B Sturnira burtonlimi (ROM 104294 ♂). Scale bar = 5 mm.

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Right Whale to Show Whalebone (1); Sperm Whale Showing Teeth (2).

Grampus griseus, (Cuvier) Gray. Grampus.. Length, 10 feet 6 inches. (After Flower.)

Baleine en Ballade sur le Grand-Banc.

Countenance of the Fur-Seal. Life-Studes of Callorhinus by the Author