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Arretosaurus ornatusFossil, Fossil Iguanian
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Arretosaurus ornatus
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American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 6706)

Image processing: Dr. Jessie Maisano
Publication Date: 25 Jun 2010

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About the Species

This specimen was collected from the Eocene Shara Murun Formation, East Mesa Shara Murun region, China in 1928. 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 Dr. Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History. Funding 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 Richard Ketcham on 2 January 2006 along the coronal axis for a total of 600 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.1664 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.1664 mm and a field of reconstruction of 79 mm.

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Literature

Gilmore, C. W. 1943. Fossil lizards of Mongolia. American Museum of Natural History Bulletin 81:361-384.

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To cite this page: The Deep Scaly Project , 2010, "Arretosaurus ornatus" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed February 8, 2012 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Arretosaurus_ornatus/.

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