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On the third abdominal segment is the retinaculum that holds thefurcula.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Afurcula, or fused clavicles, is a boomerang shaped wishbone that would measure 29 cm wide and 14 cm high.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thefurculais thought to be a link between dinosaurs and birds and is the center of debate surrounding the origin of birds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In birds, the interclavicle is fused with the clavicles to form thefurcula(wishbone).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The chest consists of thefurcula(wishbone) and coracoid (collar bone), which two bones, together with the scapula (see below), form the pectoral girdle.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Areas of the skeleton with important similarities include the neck, pubis, wrist (semi-lunate carpal), arm and pectoral girdle,furcula(wishbone), and breast bone.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Afurcula(wishbone) was also present, but has only been recognized since 1996; in some cases furculae were confused with gastralia.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When the retinaculum releases thefurcula, it springs open and hits the substrate, propelling the springtail into the air.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The holotype preserves afurculaand a basket of fifteen pairs of gastralia.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thefurculaand coracoid are degenerate, and their palatal bones and sphenoid bones touch each other.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Birds are the only vertebrate animals to have a fused collarbone (thefurculaor wishbone) or a keeled sternum or breastbone.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It holds thefurculaready for release in times of emergency.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sternum had the deep and short shape typical of dynamic soarers, and bony outgrowths at the keel's forward margin securely anchored thefurcula.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They also have close relatives where thefurculais vestigal, reduced to a thin strap of ossified ligament, seemingly purposeless.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, it has been shown since then that numerous tetanuran theropod species indeed have afurcula, apparently a tetanuran innovation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The same is true for thefurcula, a bone which enhances skeletal bracing for the stresses of flight.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It also indicates that thefurculaof birds is derived from clavicles.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As in other flightless birds and some other flighted parrots, thefurculais not fused, but consists of a pair of clavicles lying in contact with each coracoid.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Tinamous have a proper semicircularfurcula, with no trace of a hypocleidium.
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