Examples of tibiae of Canis dirus (IMAGE)

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Examples of tibiae of Canis dirus

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Examples of tibiae of Canis dirus from the late Pleistocene Rancho La Brea asphalt seeps bearing healed oblique fractures of the mid-shaft with foreshortening of the bone, similar to that in the pathological C. chihliensis tibia

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Mairin Balisi

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