Many authors have noted the relatively short wing configuration of azhdarchids, with their abbreviated distal wing phalanges contrasting with their long forearms, the latter a result of hyper-elongate wing metacarpals [12], [16], [17], [74].
I found myself looking with vague dread at the hands with which I was holding the book, momentarily aware that I had no real sense of what these things were, with their consecutive bones and phalanges.
Coley et al. [9] reported only two cases of GCT arising from the phalanges in their series of 108 cases.
Chevrotains have four hoofed toes on each foot; deer often retain the first and second phalanges (sections) of their lateral toes; but all bovids have lost the bones of their lateral toes.
Television's highest-paid actress again showed off the sparkler when she hit E!'s booth and let her phalanges prance through their mani-cam.
Each of the fingers, in turn, was made of three consecutive bones, 'like train cars,' he muttered; their names were almost infantile: 'proximal intermediate phalanges, distal phalanges.' The thumb was an exception in this case: it only had two phalanges, instead of three phalanges the other fingers had".
Their characteristic curved finger and toe bones (phalanges) suggest slow suspensory movement, similar to that of an orangutan or a loris, making them some of the most specialized mammals for suspension.
All phalanges are exposed mainly from their dorsal side, and all are slightly bent plantarly.
Terminal phalanges IV V are seen from their dorsal aspects, while III and II are seen progressively but slightly dorsomedially.
In most two-footed and many four-footed animals, the foot consists of all structures below the ankle joint: heel, arch, digits, and contained bones such as tarsals, metatarsals, and phalanges; in mammals that walk on their toes and in hoofed mammals, it includes the terminal parts of one or more digits.
