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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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000109367 NHMUK:ZOO:1888.3.9.58 Micropsitta finschii Volumetric Image Series 2020-03-12 Open Download  
000109368 skull NHMUK:ZOO:1888.3.9.58 Micropsitta finschii Mesh 2020-03-12 Open Download  
000108749 skull nhmuk:zoo:S/1957.11.2 Oceanites oceanicus Mesh 2020-03-11 Open Download  
000108748 nhmuk:zoo:S/1957.11.2 Oceanites oceanicus Volumetric Image Series 2020-03-11 Open Download  
000092692 skull NHMUK:ZOO:1850.8.15.152 Puffinus tenuirostris Mesh 2019-10-28 Open Download  
000092691 skeleton NHMUK:ZOO:1850.8.15.152 Puffinus tenuirostris Volumetric Image Series 2019-10-28 Open Download  
000126143 skeleton nhmuk:zoo:S/1961.6.1 Opisthocomus hoazin Volumetric Image Series 2020-07-16 Open Download  
000092399 skull, braincase nhmuk:zoo:S/1961.6.1 Opisthocomus hoazin Mesh 2019-10-28 Open Download  
000092127 skull nhmuk:zoo:S/1990.2.5 Jacana jacana Mesh 2019-10-28 Open Download  
000092126 skeleton nhmuk:zoo:S/1990.2.5 Jacana jacana Volumetric Image Series 2019-10-28 Open Download  
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