The phrase "a complete specimen of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an entire example or representation of something, often in scientific or descriptive contexts.
Example: "The museum displayed a complete specimen of the ancient dinosaur, showcasing its size and features."
Alternatives: "a full example of" or "an entire instance of".
A complete specimen of the 47m-year-old primate Darwinius, nicknamed "Ida", was bought for a reputed $1m by Jørn Hurum, a palaeontologist at Oslo's Natural History Museum.
The evolutionary transition to full-time walking, which would have freed early humans' hands for using tools, clearly came later.Since young bones are fragile, such a complete specimen of an ancient infant is a startling find.
Now the same team has found a fairly complete specimen of an adult that probably weighed about 4 to 6 kilograms.
Many specimens of ammonites, belemnites and bivalves were found during quarrying, in addition to an almost complete specimen of a Pliosaur.
A more complete specimen of similar animal was discovered in a quarry in Maidstone, Kent, in 1834 (lower Lower Greensand Formation), which Mantell soon acquired.
After piecing together a fairly complete specimen of the fish's skull, the researchers--Per Ahlberg, a paleontologist at Uppsala University in Sweden, and Min Zhu of the Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China--discovered that the rear nostrils of Kenichthys are located on the upper lip.
Among them was a remarkably complete specimen of Sarcosuchus imperator, the largest known crocodilian at approximately 12.2 metres (40 feet) long.
Granville obtained the mummy and decided to autopsy it, "thus to sacrifice a most complete specimen of the art of Egyptian embalming," he wrote, "in hopes of eliciting some new facts illustrative of so curious and interesting a subject".
Finally, on 20 February 1824, during the same meeting of the Geological Society of London in which Conybeare described a very complete specimen of Plesiosaurus, Buckland formally announced Megalosaurus.
Scientists not involved in the new research hailed its importance, placing the Ardi skeleton on a pedestal alongside notable figures of hominid evolution like Lucy and the 1.6-million-year-old Turkana Boy from Kenya, an almost complete specimen of Homo erectus with anatomy remarkably similar to modern Homo sapiens.
a complete specimen, b head and anterior part of trunk, showing small first (H1) and larger second (H2) head sclerites, the former bearing eyes (e); c posterior part of trunk, with tergites partly prepared away to expose thoracic appendages with multisegmented inner branch (en endopod) and flap-like outer branch (ex exite).
