ANT 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Femoral Head, Talar, Phalanx Bone
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The figures on the following pages in cartmill and. Smith will be useful: skull 105-107, 417-420; teeth 74, 108; postcranium 137-138, 141-143, 148. This doesn"t make intuitive sense for humans but look at the primate skeletons in the lab and you"ll see the logic of the term. Some use the alternate term infracranial skeleton for humans, but i don"t like that. Don"t need to identify individual types but i want you to know the types. They are: cervical (neck) the top 7; thoracic (chest) next 12; lumbar (lower back) next 5; sacral (sacrum) next 5 (these are fused); coccygeal (coccyx) next 4 (often fused). There are referred to by number, so the top cervical would be. Note: the scapulae and clavicles form the pectoral girdle. os coxae (plural: ossa coxae) the hip bone (aka innominate) forms the pelvic girdle. Each os coxae is formed from three separate bones: ilium, ischium and pubis.
