Macrauchenia patachonica - forefoot bones

This is a 3D laser scan of right metacarpals and phalanges from digits III and IV, part of the holotype skeleton of *Macrauchenia patachonica*. It was collected on 10th to 18th January 1834 at Puerto San Julián in Argentina by Charles Darwin and is between 1.5 million and 10,000 years old. 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. 316mm x 98mm x 63mm. [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 43402 K-O Visit the dataset (https://doi.org/10.5519/0086786) and specimen records on the Museum’s Data Portal for images and to request high resolution scan data.