316 C. E. Beecher — Reconstruction of a Cretaceous Dinosaur. 



The attitude of the fore limbs depends largely upon the placing of 

 the scapula. In Professor Marsh's illustration the scapula is repre- 

 sented at about sixty degrees inclination to the vertebral column. 



Figure 5. — Claosaurus annectens Marsh ; left hind foot, with tibia aud fibula : 

 one-tenth natural size. 



The same position was previously adopted in the mounting of 

 Tguanodon (figure 3), and in both cases it results in throwing the 

 fore limbs down so that they would lose much of their value as 



