Sentence examples for skeleton specimen from inspiring English sources

In 1994 the ICZN reacted positively, in Opinion 1788 deciding that the skull and skeleton, specimen BMNH R.1111, would be the neotype of Scelidosaurus.

In 1988, Gregory S. Paul based Albertosaurus megagracilis on a small tyrannosaurid skeleton, specimen LACM 28345, from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana.

D. carnegii (also spelled D. carnegiei), named after Andrew Carnegie, is the best known, mainly due to a near-complete skeleton (specimen CM 84) collected by Jacob Wortman, of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and described and named by John Bell Hatcher in 1901.

The ICZN, implicitly accepting de Beer's standpoint, did indeed suppress the plethora of alternative names initially proposed for the first skeleton specimens, which mainly resulted from the acrimonious dispute between Meyer and his opponent Johann Andreas Wagner (whose Griphosaurus problematicus — "problematic riddle-lizard" — was a vitriolic sneer at Meyer's Archaeopteryx).

Subsequent excavation of the sediments in this location yielded more than 100 fragments of an adult female skeleton designated specimen number ARA-VP-6/500 ARA-VP-6/500 ARA-VP-6/500icknamed "Ardi".

The Natural History Museum of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia, houses a 13 m female fin whale skeleton – the specimen had been found floating in the Gulf of Piran in the spring of 2003.

These included shells and corals; animal horns and skeletons; natural specimens dried, stuffed or bottled; prints and paintings; antique sculptures and medals; ancient tools; new scientific instruments; and exotic plants and weaponry (and other accouterments) brought back from foreign climes by explorers and tradesmen.

While most of these vouchers were study skins, a few were skeletons or specimens in ethanol.

Articulated pedal skeletons from specimens of 32 syndactylous marsupial species were measured.

It claimed to have acquired the remains at the beginning of the 18th century, and that the only other skeleton of the specimen, in Saint Petersburg's Hermitage museum, was "not as complete as Copenhagen's" because of its missing tail.

Gingerich said it took about two-and-a-half years to get permission to remove the skeleton, an exceptional specimen of a 37 million-year-old whale, Basilosaurus isis.