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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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000092015 skull, braincase nhmuk:zoo:S/1963.28.4 Phoebastria irrorata Mesh 2019-10-27 Open Download  
000092016 skull, beak nhmuk:zoo:S/1963.28.4 Phoebastria irrorata Mesh 2019-10-27 Open Download  
000522049 skeleton UMZC:Vertebrates:424.c Eolophus galerita Volumetric Image Series 2023-05-09 Open Download  
000125758 foot nhmuk:1964.17.104 Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris Mesh 2020-07-14 Open Download  
000092653 foot nhmuk:zoo:S/1952.1.93 Porphyrio poliocephalus Mesh 2019-10-28 Open Download  
000459420 tibiotarsus and fibula FMNH:Birds:344970 Pitta erythrogaster erythrogaster Mesh 2022-09-06 Restricted Download  
000125982 femur nhmuk:A/1985.10.136 Sylvietta rufescens Mesh 2020-07-14 Open Download  
000475598 tibiotarsus NHMUK:ZOO:S/1979.5.3 Branta bernicla Mesh 2022-10-19 Open Download  
000523787 skeleton NHMUK:ZOO:1866.8.6.13 Corvus albus Volumetric Image Series 2023-05-13 Open Download  
000108795 tarsometatarsus nhmuk:zoo:A/1969.13.52 Furnarius rufus Mesh 2020-03-11 Open Download  
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