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This specimen was collected in the vicinity of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. 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. Robert Murphy of the Royal Ontario 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.

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 14 April 2005 along the coronal axis for a total of 375 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.170 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.170 mm and a field of reconstruction of 70 mm.

Literature

Hoser, R. 1997. Pogona - from an Australian perspective. Reptilian Magazine 5:27-41.

Links

Pogona vitticeps page on the Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan)

Agamidae page on the EMBL Reptile Database

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