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152 The ilium is firmly connected with the sacrum, and there is a pubic foramen; the pubo-ischiatic notch is small. In the Plesiosauria (Figs. 125, 126), the slender ilium, connected ligamentously with a sacrum of three or four vertebrae, articulates at its distal extremity with the