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TEMPO birds Project ID: 00000C420 Public
4299 Media · 578 Specimens · Creator: Benson, Roger · Managed by: Roger Benson

High resolution CT scans of full bird skeletons from the TEMPO project — quantifying variation in rates and constraints on avian skeletal evolution. Bjarnason A, Benson RBJ. 2021. A 3D geometric morphometric dataset quantifying skeletal variation in birds. MorphoMuseuM. doi.org/10.18563/journal.m3.125 Be sure to fully acknowledge the museum collections that provided specimens (see 'locations' and specimen metadata). Please notify the curators of those collections of publications resulting from work using these datasets. European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program 2014–2018 under grant agreement 677774 (European Research Council [ERC] Starting Grant: TEMPO). For access to specimens, we thank Judith White and Jo Cooper (Natural History Museum bird collection, Tring, UK), Janet Hinshaw (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbour, Michigan), Mathew Lowe and Mike Brooke (Unviersity Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, UK), Mark Carnall and Eileen Westwig (Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, UK), Kristof Zyskowski (Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, Conecticut), Ben Marks and John Bates (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago). For access to CT scanning facilities we thank Ketura Smithson (Cambridge Biotomography Centre), Tom Davies, Ben Moon and Liz Martin-Silverstone (University of Bristol), Vincent Fernandez (Natural History Museum), April Neander and Zhe-Xi Luo (University of Chicago PaleoCT), and Matt Friedman (University of Michigan).

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000109011 tibiotarsus, fibula nhmuk:zoo:S/2001.41.5 Anas discors Mesh 2020-03-12 Open Download  
000109298 humerus nhmuk:zoo:A/1973.5.180 Epinecrophylla fulviventris Mesh 2020-03-12 Open Download  
000523774 tibiotarsus NHMUK:ZOO:1895.7.1.184 Calonectris diomedea Mesh 2023-05-13 Open Download  
000523777 ulna NHMUK:ZOO:1895.7.1.184 Calonectris diomedea Mesh 2023-05-13 Open Download  
000523803 carpometacarpus NHMUK:ZOO:1866.8.6.13 Corvus albus Mesh 2023-05-13 Open Download  
000092092 scapula nhmuk:zoo:A/1973.5.150 Glyphorynchus spirurus Mesh 2019-10-28 Open Download  
000523814 pes NHMUK:ZOO:1866.8.6.13 Corvus albus Mesh 2023-05-13 Open Download  
000523879 sternum NHMUK:ZOO:S/1985.95.3 Gallinula chloropus Mesh 2023-05-13 Open Download  
000092623 tarsometatarsus nhmuk:zoo:A/1971.34.13 Platylophus galericulatus Mesh 2019-10-28 Open Download  
000109057 carpometacarpus nhmuk:zoo:A/1970.43.69 Psaltriparus minimus Mesh 2020-03-12 Open Download  
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