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About the Species
This specimen was collected from San Geronimo Island, Baja California, Mexico by B. F. Osorio Tafall on 22 September 1945. It was made available to The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility for scanning by Dr. Jessie Maisano of The University of Texas at Austin and Mr. Alan Resetar of the Field Museum. FFunding for scanning and image processing was provided by a National Science Foundation Assembling the Tree of Life grant (EF-0334961), The Deep Scaly Project: Resolving Squamate Phylogeny using Genomic and Morphological Approaches, to Drs. Jacques Gauthier of Yale University, Maureen Kearney of the Field Museum, Jessie Maisano of The University of Texas at Austin, Tod Reeder of San Diego State University, Olivier Rieppel of the Field Museum, Jack Sites of Brigham Young University, and John Wiens of SUNY Stonybrook.
About this Specimen
The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 18 May 2005 along the coronal axis for a total of 690 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.015 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.015 mm and a field of reconstruction of 7 mm.
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Three-dimensional volumetric renderings of the skull with the osteoderms, scleral ossicles, hyoid and jaw removed, and of the isolated left mandible. All are 2mb or less.
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