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This specimen was collected at a marina in Monterey County, California by L. Thomsen on 14 November 1973. It was made available to The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility for scanning by Dr. Timothy Rowe of The University of Texas at Austin. Funding for scanning and image processing was provided by a National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative grant to Dr. Rowe.

Lateral view of skull	Dorsal view of skull	Ventral view of skull

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 22 February 2006 along the horizontal axis for a total of 401 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.25 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.22 mm and a field of reconstruction of 189.3 mm.

Links

Callorhinus ursinus page from the Seal Conservation Society

C. ursinus page on MarineBio.org

C. ursinus page on the Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology)

C. ursinus brain on the Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections site