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Had the scientists that were shown the fossil decided to not publish on a privately-owned fossil, the specimen would have remained unknown to science.
In particular, the infraorbital depression on this specimen would have persisted into adulthood.
To avoid the estimated 25% stress relaxation from removing the test specimen, the specimen would have had to be quite long because the St. Venant's characteristic distance in this case was more related to the transverse dimensions of the specimen than to the plate thickness.
Rather, this specimen would have been considered invalid, and an additional clinical specimen from the patient would have to have been ordered.
Additionally, in order for bilirubin to be used as a marker of this condition, a specimen would have to be taken and testing would likely have to occur in the local nursery, because results would need to be rapidly available based on current understanding of hyperbilirubinemia.
Third, multiple fecal specimens per subject and deeper sequencing of each specimen would have been desirable to reduce misclassification of rare taxa and the potentially important fluctuations in the fecal microbiota over time (Turnbaugh et al, 2009; Caporaso et al, 2011; Wu et al, 2011; Consortium, 2012).
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In the nineteenth century, insect specimens would have been described and differentiated from each other from gross anatomy: colour, shape, size and structure of the major body parts.
After all these years, you would have expected that all materials (writing, specimens) would have been located, stored, and cataloged.
However, not all pathology departments have access to the equipment required, and the processing of these specimens would have to deviate from the local pathology laboratory routine.
The detailed preservation also shows that the male abdomen was segmented, and flexible: The two fossilized specimens would have likely assumed a side-by-side position when mating on a flat surface like a leaf, as current froghoppers do.
A larger sample size with more specific occupational and dietary information for individual specimens would have yielded more accurate results.
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