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The Chondrocranium of Cryptoprocta ferox

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  • © 1985

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Authors:
  1. Michael Köhncke

    1. Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 13, Germany

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Part of the book series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology (ADVSANAT, volume 95)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Michael Köhncke
    Pages 1-2

  3. Material and Methods

    • Michael Köhncke
    Pages 3-8

  4. Description

    • Michael Köhncke
    Pages 9-39

  5. Comparisons and Discussion

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    Pages 40-72

  6. Summary and Conclusions

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    Pages 73-77

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 78-89
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Comparative anatomy of the vertebrate head was taken a great step forward about a hundred years ago when the Born method of reconstruction - using wax plates - was applied to examination of chondrocrania. Thus, a highly detailed and very exact description became possible. Enthusiastically taken up by many, Gaupp with his work on Lacerta (1900) was the first to apply it. Regrettably, efforts were not concentrated on a few, clear systematic groups, but were spread rather widely over forms ranging from easily available domestic species, e.g. Oryctolagus (Voit 1909) to rare exotic species such as Tachyglossus (Gaupp 1908) and Ornithorhynchus (Wilson 1901). Furthermore, the research remained relatively static in its considerations, and until very recently a chon­ drocranium was treated as complete in its development in the same way that a fully developed skull is complete and in its form specific for a species or genus. The stadium optimum had to be abandoned as an idealized fiction giving way to the concept of a dynamically progressing ontogeny.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 13, Germany

    Michael Köhncke

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Chondrocranium of Cryptoprocta ferox

  • Authors: Michael Köhncke

  • Series Title: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70404-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-15337-5Published: 01 September 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-70404-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0301-5556

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-7065

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 89

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Anatomy

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