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A Removable Mount for the Individual Cranial Bones of a Juvenile Dinosaur
Author(s) -
BENNETT G. E.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.1999.tb01151.x
Subject(s) - skull , juvenile , mount , anatomy , vertebrate , geology , biology , paleontology , computer science , biochemistry , gene , genetics , operating system
Mounting original fossil material of juvenile animals can present challenges beyond working with adult material, primarily because the lack of fusion in juvenile bones translates into a greater number of smaller elements to be mounted. In the present case, this paper describes the fabrication of a mount for a subadult ornithopod dinosaur. The fragile, unfused cranial bones required the creation of separate cradles for individual or groups of bones. For a typical mounted adult vertebrate skull, only two structural units for the cranium and the lower jaws would be necessary.