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Bipes biporus, Baja Worm Lizard
The Deep Scaly Project - Multiple Institutions
Bipes biporus
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California Academy of Sciences (CAS 126478)

Image processing: Dr. Jessie Maisano
Publication Date: 04 Apr 2008

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About the Species

This specimen was collected on the grounds of the El Sombrero Trailer Park, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico by T. J. Papenfuss on 30 December 1970. 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. Jens Vindum of the California Academy of Sciences. 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 Matthew Colbert on 12 July 2005 along the coronal axis for a total of 495 1024x1024 pixel slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.0152 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.0152 mm and a field of reconstruction of 7.25 mm.

About the
Scan

Links

pictures of Bipes biporus on CaliforniaHerps.com

Bipedidae page from the Reptile Database

Literature
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Three-dimensional volumetric renderings of the skull with the extracolumella, hyoid and jaw removed, and of the isolated left mandible. All are 2mb or less.

Skull yaw movie

Skull pitch movie

Skull roll movie

Mandible yaw movie

Mandible pitch movie

Mandible roll movie

Additional
Imagery

To cite this page: The Deep Scaly Project , 2008, "Bipes biporus" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed March 16, 2010 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Bipes_biporus/.

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