Meanings
nounastragalocalcaneum (plural astragalocalcaneums or astragalocalcanea)
plural astragalocalcaneums · plural astragalocalcanea
- A fused astragalus and calcaneum
In Camposaurus arizonensis from the Norian of Arizona, USA, widely regarded as the oldest neotheropod[58 ,25 ], the distal fibula is fused to the distal tibia and to the fused astragalocalcaneum.
2016 January 21, “The Oldest Jurassic Dinosaur: A Basal Neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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