EXPLORATIONS IN TURKESTAN
EXPLORATIONS IN TURKESTAN
EXPLORATIONS IN TURKESTAN
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ORDO CARNIVORA.<br />
353<br />
79, fig. I).* A mummied skull of the same animal is in the collection of the British<br />
Museum in London.<br />
Aside from these facts I am able to give exact cranial comparison because<br />
among the skulls of Jeitteles's collection in the k. k. Hofmuseun in Vienna which<br />
T7ab1le of dimn .sios (in milli'mtecrs).<br />
Skulls.<br />
North<br />
Kurgan,<br />
Anau,<br />
+ 28 ft.<br />
Subfossil dogs<br />
(Mus. Vienna).*<br />
lgyplt.<br />
Recent pariah (logs<br />
(Mus. Vienna).<br />
Froml Fromn Greece. IAbydos. \Vadli-lalfa.<br />
rock-tomil) tolmb at<br />
at Sitt.t Thel)es.4<br />
I<br />
Basilar length .....................<br />
Superior length of skull..............<br />
Length of frontal ...................<br />
Iength of parietal ...................<br />
Length of nasal...................<br />
W idth of palate.....................<br />
Width of parietal ...................<br />
Widt l between proximial orbitals of<br />
frontal... .......................<br />
Greatest width of nasals. ...........<br />
Least width between inferior borders of<br />
orbits ............................<br />
Greatest height of occipital ...........<br />
Greatest widtlh of occipital ..........<br />
\\idth on arcus zygomaticus ........<br />
Width of miuzzle before front premlolar<br />
Ratio of width of occipital triangle to<br />
height, expressed in proportions to (x).<br />
164<br />
iS2<br />
4()<br />
. . . .<br />
.5(<br />
57<br />
... .<br />
37<br />
46<br />
6((<br />
102<br />
4'<br />
I7I<br />
144<br />
1)1<br />
47<br />
5)<br />
48<br />
(56<br />
54<br />
1 7<br />
38<br />
46<br />
62<br />
97<br />
35<br />
74<br />
141<br />
166<br />
43<br />
66<br />
46<br />
56<br />
52<br />
IS 8<br />
I 38<br />
47<br />
6 2<br />
)99<br />
35<br />
! 76<br />
173 i6i 1(12<br />
197 18 185<br />
61 53 55<br />
52i 45 46<br />
72 66 71<br />
53 46 47<br />
5 56 55<br />
55 47 47<br />
IS 16 7<br />
37 31 31<br />
5"( 47 5<br />
(07 6o 63<br />
o05 (?) 14) )1<br />
41 36 38<br />
75 i 7 79<br />
Lower jaw.<br />
Lengt h fronm proxinal angtulare ..<br />
Length fronm proximal articulare....................<br />
Length of molars ... ...<br />
Length of toothless space Iefore<br />
I)re lolar i .......... 5<br />
Height of vertical branch.... ....<br />
Height of horizontal branch<br />
lbehind molar ........... 30<br />
I,ength of molar ......... 23<br />
Length of symnlhysis ....... 25<br />
Auver-<br />
Anati.<br />
Wolf fromi<br />
Capis nier.<br />
Auvernier<br />
- poutia- (a n is<br />
' Nolf- -<br />
pile-dwellings.<br />
\o\ f- , I i matis optimwr. tini.§ ,matris<br />
d(log. I<br />
optimar. I<br />
145 14(<br />
147 144<br />
72 73<br />
4<br />
57 (?)<br />
25<br />
20<br />
21<br />
6<br />
2-5<br />
21<br />
21<br />
139 152<br />
140 () 2<br />
79 .. ...<br />
I<br />
21<br />
22<br />
20<br />
2.1<br />
21<br />
!4<br />
54<br />
62<br />
23 260. 5<br />
21. 5 24<br />
22 . .. .<br />
Schloss-<br />
Re- I)erg.<br />
cent C'a(nis<br />
wolf. il.ostra n-<br />
Zt'21'1.<br />
1.. 197 1.145<br />
.... loo 78<br />
. . . . . . .. i 5<br />
.... 78 ....-<br />
27<br />
32 5<br />
34<br />
34<br />
26<br />
21<br />
Determiniedl as Calnis mlitri, optimtnr by Jeitteles himself. t Collected by Dr. Lautll. tCollected by Stwlrider.<br />
Alfter Studer. .After Jeitteles.<br />
was open to me through the kindness of the Custos Kittl, there are several mummied<br />
skulls from Egypt which, according to the accompanying labels and written<br />
documents, were determined by Jeitteles himself as Canis matris optimc. As<br />
a characteristic of these skulls, we may take the ratio of width to height of the<br />
*Rosellini, I., Monlumenti dell' Egitto, etc., Mon. Civile, plate xvii.
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