Coming soon!

This specimen was captive bred. 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. Jim O'Reilly of the University of Miami. 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.

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 14 March 2005 along the coronal axis for a total of 705 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.0302 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.0302 mm and a field of reconstruction of 13 mm.

Links

Tropidophiidae page on the TIGR Reptile Database

Three-dimensional volumetric renderings of the skull with the jaw and hyoid 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