The tarsometatarsus is a bone that is only found in the lower leg of birds and some non-avian dinosaurs. It is formed from the fusion of several bones...

foot (the distals and most of the metatarsal) are fused to form the tarsometatarsus – a third segment of the leg, specific to birds. The upper bones of...

from the early Oligocene of Argentina. Known from a single partial tarsometatarsus, its taxonomic placement is uncertain. It has been variously described...

a single species, M. ekalakaensis, known from an incomplete right tarsometatarsus and toe bone. The Magnusavis holotype specimen, CCM V2019.5.1, was...

scales. The tarsometatarsus and toes of most birds are covered in two types of scales. Large scutes run along the dorsal side of the tarsometatarsus and toes...

being smaller but the tarsometatarsus and claws as large and robust as in that species. Also, the distal foramen of the tarsometatarsus is markedly smaller...

in Uvs Province. This genus is known from a single and incomplete tarsometatarsus, which differs significantly from all other Neogene genera of anatinae...

long bone of the tarsometatarsus) and a bony knob on the front of metatarsal II (the most innermost long bone of the tarsometatarsus) for the insertion...

tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus of a smallish to mid-sized passerine that may be the same as the preceding; proximal ulna and tarsometatarsus of a Paridae-sized...

The tibiotarsus is the large bone between the femur and the tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird. It is the fusion of the proximal part of the tarsus...

Xenopsitta is a prehistoric parrot genus known from a fossil tarsometatarsus in early Miocene deposits at Merkur, in western Bohemia of the Czech Republic...

almost complete right tibiotarsus, proximal half of right fibula, right tarsometatarsus, right pelvis, and synsacrum (with last thoracic vertebra attached...

was first described by Loye H. Miller (1911) in 1911 from a partial tarsometatarsus recovered from Pleistocene cave deposits in Samwel Cave of northern...

the most complete skulls known of a large phorusrhacid, as well as a tarsometatarsus lower leg bone and a phalanx toe bone. The discovery of Kelenken clarified...

medieval banquets. They may also have been eaten in Ancient Egypt. Tarsometatarsus fragments somewhat similar to Mycteria Specimen MEF 1363: Incomplete...

genus Pachyplichas. The holotype for the North Island wren is a right tarsometatarsus (AU 7102.20 in the collections of the Auckland University Geology Department)...

Gymnogyps amplus was first described by L. H. Miller in 1911 from a broken tarsometatarsus. The species is the only condor species found in the La Brea Tar Pits'...

1990. Another partial tarsometatarsus was reportedly found in a shell pit in Sarasota County, making it the only other tarsometatarsus known from Titanis...

cinereo-undulata.– (A [diurnal raptor] with yellow cere, [feathered tarsometatarsus], body dusky brown variegated with rusty, tail black with ashy-waved...

(and eventually referred to P. longipes), one small and one mid-sized tarsometatarsus fragment remained unassigned; a few proximal ends of the same bone...

in 1891, the fossils being a left femur, tibiotarsus, fibula, and tarsometatarsus all from the same individual found in the Lower-Middle Miocene strata...

pelvis, coracoid, ulna, radius, and tarsometatarsus found in Mare aux Songes. Only the coracoid and the tarsometatarsus are left today. It was scientifically...

as the left tarsometatarsus of a non-avian theropod by Brett-Surman and Paul in 1985. It was later redescribed as the right tarsometatarsus of an enantiornithine...

and possible herons and storks. Mayr & Kitchener (2024) describe a tarsometatarsus and an associated pedal phalanx from the Eocene London Clay (United...

is proportional to the ratio between tarsometatarsus and tibiotarsus length. In Paraphysornis the tarsometatarsus is only half the length of the tibiotarsus...

distinctive morphology of the tarsometatarsus, including facilities for a foot that was at least semi-zygodactyl. The tarsometatarsus is generally similar to...

owlet-nightjar, Aegotheles albertisi Sclater 1874 A fossil proximal right tarsometatarsus (MNZ S42800) was found at the Bannockburn Formation of the Manuherikia...

taxidermist at the museum, Antonio Pozzi. In 1931, a very large distal right tarsometatarsus associated with an ungual phalanx from digit II, was described by the...

(Tringa nebularia) Preening male ruff (Calidris pugnax) A distal right tarsometatarsus of a bird roughly similar to a pectoral sandpiper. Probably calidrid...

2307/4083714. JSTOR 4083714. NNPM NAN 41-646. Almost complete left tarsometatarsus. Probably a prehistoric hobby, perhaps less specialized for bird hunting:...