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Other relatively predictable adaptations are the development of an obtuse angle between the scapula and coracoid and the loss of the furcula.
In the pectoral girdle, fused clavicles, or a furcula, are now known in many theropods.
However, its feathers, wings, furcula and reduced fingers are all characteristics of modern birds.
Well, it is actually a wishbone, the furcula is the wishbone and it is made up of the clavicles fused together in the middle.
Such analyses have shown that some features considered to be typically avian, such as the furcula, first appeared in carnivorous dinosaurs.
Archaeopteryx was a true bird, because it had a birdlike skull, perching foot, fully-formed flight feathers, a modern-looking elliptical wing, a furcula and avian lung design.
But clavicles are now known from a variety of nonavian dinosaurs, and a fused furcula is present in several nonavian theropods, including allosauroids and tyrannosaurids.
I would like to see if the furcula, or wishbone, is present.
Examples from Classical Literature
In a pouter, the furcula had not been lengthened proportionally with the increased length of the body.
The extremities of the furcula, where articulated to the coracoids, vary considerably in outline.
The size and shape of the perforations in the sternum, and the size and divergence of the arms of the furcula, differ.
The coracoids are large, and the clavicles are nearly always united forming the furcula.
Anatomically, this genus is remarkable in the parrot tribe for having no furcula, or merry-thought bone.
In furcula, the outer margin of the band is generally sharply bent inward just below the costa.
The furcula is large, and the scapula has a well developed acromion.
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