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Petrosaurus mearnsi, Banded Rock Lizard
The Deep Scaly Project - Multiple Institutions
Petrosaurus mearnsi
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Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH 8431)

Image processing: Dr. Jessie Maisano
Publication Date: 18 May 2011

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About the Species

This specimen was collected from Mountain Spring, Imperial County, California by Laurence M. Klauber in April 1925. 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.

Petrosaurus mearnsi
Lateral view of the scanned specimen.

About this Specimen

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 19 March 2004 along the coronal axis for a total of 525 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.048 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.048 mm and a field of reconstruction of 20 mm.

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pictures of Petrosaurus mearnsi from CaliforniaHerps.com

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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 2mb or less.

Skull pitch movie

Skull roll movie

Mandible yaw movie

Mandible pitch movie

Mandible roll movie

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To cite this page: The Deep Scaly Project , 2011, "Petrosaurus mearnsi" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed May 23, 2012 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Petrosaurus_mearnsi/.

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