Observations and comments on the reliability of muscle reconstruction in fossil vertebrates

@article{Bryant1990ObservationsAC,
  title={Observations and comments on the reliability of muscle reconstruction in fossil vertebrates},
  author={Harold N. Bryant and Kevin L. Seymour},
  journal={Journal of Morphology},
  year={1990},
  volume={206}
}
In Canis and Ursus the largest proportion of attachments of muscles of the shoulder and brachium on the scapula and humerus is direct; fewer attachments are aponeurotic or tendinous. In both genera most attachments can be associated with superficial osteological features (scars or delimitable surfaces); attachments that lack such features are direct. Most aponeurotic attachments are associated with rugose scarring whereas tendinous attachments are often associated with smooth surfaces. Although… 
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