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About the Species
This specimen, the holotype, was collected from Ukhaa Tolgod, Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation, Mongolian Gobi Desert. 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. Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History. 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.
About this Specimen
The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 18 February 2005 along the coronal axis for a total of 600 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.0472 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.0472 mm and a field of reconstruction of 22 mm.
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Literature
Gao, K., and M. A. Norell. 2000. Taxonomic composition and systematics of late Cretaceous lizard assemblages from Ukhaa Tolgod and adjacent localities, Mongolian Gobi Desert. American Museum of Natural History Bulletin 249:1-118.
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Three-dimensional volumetric renderings of the isolated left mandible. All are less than 1mb.
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