Fig 1.
(A) Photograph of a Samotherium major (GMM 2002) astragalus in dorsal view, with representative terminology. (B) Samotherium major (GMM 2002) astragalus in ventral view, with representative terminology. The scale bar represents 50 mm.
Table 1.
Giraffid astragali utilized in the morphological descriptions.
Table 2.
Selected measurements of giraffid astragali (in millimeters).
Fig 2.
The astragali of representative giraffids in dorsal view.
Demonstration of a dorsal view of representative astragali for all taxa evaluated in this study. Each specimen is isometrically scaled so that all specimens are of equal height. Samotherium major is represented in a box, as it is the baseline astragalus from which all taxa were subsequently compared against.
Fig 3.
The astragali of representative giraffids in ventral view.
Demonstration of a ventral view of representative astragali for all taxa evaluated in this study. Each specimen is isometrically scaled so that all specimens are of equal height. Samotherium major is represented in a box, as it is the baseline astragalus from which all taxa were subsequently compared against.