Macrauchenia patachonica - cast of finger bone

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2021-10-13
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This is a 3D laser scan of a cast of right intermediate phalanx III, part of the holotype skeleton of *Macrauchenia patachonica*. The cast was made at the Royal College of Surgeons of England between 1834 and 1887. It is part of the Earth Sciences collection at the Natural History Museum, London. This has been scanned as part of the Museum’s Darwin Fossil Mammals digitisation project. Find out more at www.nhm.ac.uk/darwinsfossils. 56mm x 41mm x 37mm. [What was *Macrauchenia*? ](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/digital-collections/digital-collections-programme/what-was-macrauchenia.html) Specimen number NHMUK PV M 2706 G Visit the dataset (https://doi.org/10.5519/0086786) and specimen record (https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/d234191a-d023-4b31-a1d9-ffc4755231c2) on the Museum’s Data Portal for images and to request high resolution scan data.