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pelvis which overhangs the posterior ribs. Viewed from above the superior crest 

 curves inward and is closely and firmly united with the neural arches of the sacrum. 

 The ilium does not roof over the cavities between the transverse processes as 

 described by Marsh ^ but in adult individuals these cavities are completely covered 

 over, as shown in the sacrum of S. stenops, No. 4934, by the coalescence of the 

 antero-posterior expansion of the superior surfaces of the transverse processes. 

 Beginning just anterior to the pubic pedimcle the superior surface widens rapidly 

 ia a transverse direction posteriorly, particularly on the outer side where the upper 

 portion is produced outward as a heavy shelf of bone with a thickened rounded 

 outer border overhanging the ischiac peduncle. Posterior to the underlying ischiac 

 articulation the iUum contracts rapidly in a transverse direction to a short, thickened, 

 trimcate end placed on the inner side of the bone with roughened surfaces, which 

 has a greater vertical than transverse diameter. The greatest vertical thickness 

 of the iUum is through the pubic peduncle and from this point posteriorly the 

 bone is much depressed. 



Fig. 42.— Pelvis of Stegosaueus stenops Maesh. -^hat. size. Side view, a, Acetabuxum; il, ilium; 

 is, ischium; p, pubis; p', postpubis. Aptek Maesh. 



The acetabular portion of the ilium is large and shallow. The surface for 

 articulation with the ischium, while not prominent, is nevertheless of good size, 

 consisting of a roughened transversely elongated triangular area with the point of 

 the triangle directed inward. 



The pubic pedimcle while not extending far below the acetabular surface is 

 broad and heavy as in Triceratops. 



On the internal side above the acetabulum the surface is deeply concave verti- 

 cally with cupped depressions which articulate -ftdth the heavy expanded ends of 

 the sacral ribs. 



Pubis (p.) — ^The pubis in Stegosaurus is composed of a flattened, somewhat spatu- 

 late prepubic portion, and a slender, more elongated postpubis. (See fig. 43, p and 

 p'.) The anterior portion is a thin, vertical blade of bone, terminated usually by a 

 vertically rounded anterior end, although a few specimens show it as being cut off 

 squarely. While this end is not especially thickened, in fully adulf specimens there 



1 Amer. Joum. Sei., vol. 21, 1881, p. 168. 



