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This specimen was collected from Honduras. 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. Jonathan Campbell of the University of Texas, Arlington. 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.

Dorsal view of the scanned specimen.

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 6 December 2005 along the horizontal axis for a total of 325 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.03239 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.03239 mm and a field of reconstruction of 25 mm.

Links

Tropidophiidae page from the EMBL Reptile Database

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