And for a while he stuck to a simple agenda: zeroing in on the freakiest, most fatuous available specimens.
Once mammalogists settle on what and how many species exist, using all available specimens and data, whichever one the type specimen fits within receives the name.
These fossils one might expect would have pretty much every bone preserved, but a good hunt down of the available specimens soon revealed that even those blessed with feathers and the like very rarely had a totally complete tail.
For each measurement, all available specimens were assayed.
In general, limited availability of samples of known origin, or reversely the lack of the information on the true origin of available specimens, constitutes the main drawback of the proposed approach.
Currently, DNA barcodes are often required to be analyzed using old museum specimens when they are the only available specimens for rare or endangered species, or even type series.
Judging from the available specimens, males reach sexual maturity at some point between 0.9 and long.
From the available specimens, the length at sexual maturity can be surmised to be under 55-58 cm in males and under 61-65 cm in females.
While Daspletosaurus fossils are rarer than other tyrannosaurids', the available specimens allow some analysis of the biology of these animals, including social behavior, diet and life history.
When anthropologist Colin Groves reviewed the taxonomy in his book Primate Taxonomy in 2001, he also upheld the subspecies status of the silky sifaka because variations in fur coloration between the available specimens suggested converging similarities with the diademed sifaka's coloration.
Posterolateral parts of carapace not preserved among available specimens.
