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About the Species
This specimen was collected 8 miles north of Vera, Knox County, Texas by J. M. Schmidt on 22 April 1947. 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.
Lateral view of the scanned specimen.
About this Specimen
The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 24 January 2005 along the coronal axis for a total of 465 slices. Each slice is 0.076 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.076 mm and a field of reconstruction of 33 mm.
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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.
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