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This specimen, a female, 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 Philip Watson on 21 February 2006 along the horizontal axis for a total of 638 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.25 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.22 mm and a field of reconstruction of 267 mm.

Links

Mirounga angustirostris page from the Seal Conservation Society

M. angustirostris page on the Ocean Oasis Field Guide

M. angustirostris page (with video) on RaceRocks.com

Mirounga angustirostris page on the Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan Museum of Zoology)

Front page image.