Sentence examples for incomplete specimen from inspiring English sources

Since the rib being studied is an incomplete specimen, it is unclear how the tumor, a benign mass known as fibrous dysplasia, affected the overall health of the individual, Dr. Frayer said.

The cancerous rib is an incomplete specimen, so the overall health impact of the tumour on the individual cannot be established.

And it was a relatively incomplete specimen, but it was one of these long-necked, heavy-bodied sauropod dinosaurs.

The capacity to make predictions based on taxon membership is especially pertinent where fundamental impediments, e.g. an egg or an incomplete specimen, preclude morphology-based detection of characteristics.

Of the 66 excluded participants, 47 had incomplete specimen sets, seven withdrew, and the rest were excluded because of deviations from testing protocol.

A well-preserved specimen (part and counterpart) with most of the forewings preserved; hind wings are present and the axial body is incomplete; specimen CNU-NEU-HP2009-001P/C.

Originally applied to just a handful of incomplete specimens, the category Dinosauria now encompasses more than 800 generic names and at least 1,000 species, with new names being added to the roster every year as the result of scientific explorations around the world.

Expeditions in the 1960s led by the equally renowned John Ostrom of Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History recovered additional incomplete specimens from the Cloverly.

Berger et al. [1] base all their conclusions on fragmentary remains as such, they must extrapolate adult body size, mass, and inferred height from incomplete specimens that may not reflect the true morphology of the individuals sampled.

Extrapolation from incomplete specimens, however, suggests maximum sizes of over 170 mm in length.

Pygocirrus butyricampum was previously known only from two incomplete specimens including a posterior fragment [ 3] with a single pair of pygidial cirri and biramous parapodia with similar rami.