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About the Species
This specimen was collected from Dept. Belen, Catamarca, Argentina by E. S. Riggs in 1927. 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 4 October 2004 along the coronal axis for a total of 615 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.053 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.053 mm and a field of reconstruction of 23 mm.
About the
Scan
Literature
Alvarez, B. B., M. E. Tedesco and E. Porcel. 1987. Osteología craneal de Teius teyou (Daudin, 1802) (Reptilia, Teiidae). Cuad. Herpetol. 3:1-31.
Reeder, T. W., C. J. Cole, and H. C. Dessauer. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships of whiptail lizards of the genus Cnemidophorus (Squamata: Teiidae): a test of monophyly, reevaluation of karyotypic evolution, and review of hybrid origins. American Museum Novitates 3365:1-61.
Links
Teiidae page on the EMBL Reptile Database
Literature
& Links
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.
Additional Imagery
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