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About the Species
This specimen was collected from Las Trancas, Ñuble, Chile by G. Moreno in February 1976. 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 10 March 2004 along the coronal axis for a total of 405 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.078 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.078 mm and a field of reconstruction of 29 mm.
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Three-dimensional volumetric renderings of the skull with hyoid and jaw removed, and of the isolated left mandible. All are 2 mb or less.
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