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Hi all, (back on the list after quite a long
time)
I had been trying to identify a couple of
bones(paired) I had collected in association( but not articolated ) with a bird
skeleton some time ago, but unsuccesfully; today, while working on another
specimen, the same odd-looking (at least to my untrained eyes) bones have
literally dropped off of a bird skull.
I'm sure they come from the palatal region and I
can exclude the palatines and pterygoids, but being not expert on the palatal
condition of modern birds I can't say what they can or cannot be.
These are elongated, tapering and contact
each other rostrally and are slightly curved; posteriorly there's a laterally
convex (and medially concave)process, much thinner than the rest of the
bone.
I did a sketch of the original
pair using the good old paintbrush when I
first found it and I will send it to anybody willing to be of some help and
unable to identify it by just reading this email.
(I think there may be some errors because I've
just realized that what I interpreted as being the dorsal side may be
the ventral one and vice versa...)
thanks in advance for any insight
Filippo Calzolari
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