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Calotes emma, Forest Crested Lizard
The Deep Scaly Project - Multiple Institutions
Calotes emma
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Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH 252264)

Image processing: Dr. Jessie Maisano
Publication Date: 23 Feb 2010

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About the Species

This specimen was collected from Kannack town, Tram Lap village, Ankhe District, Gia-Lai Province, Vietnam by I. S. Darevsky and N. L. Orlov 21 April 1995. 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. 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.

Calotes emma
Lateral view of the scanned specimen.

About this Specimen

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 16 March 2004 along the coronal axis for a total of 468 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.078 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.078 mm and a field of reconstruction of 33 mm.

About the
Scan

Links

Agamidae on the TIGR Reptile Database

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Three-dimensional volumetric renderings of the skull with the scleral ossicles, hyoid and jaw removed, and of the isolated left mandible. All are less than 2mb.

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 , 2010, "Calotes emma" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed February 8, 2012 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Calotes_emma/.

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