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This specimen was collected from Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire, England by H. Field in 1938. It was made available to The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility for scanning by Dr. Jessie Maisano of The University of Texas at Austin and Mr. Alan Resetar of the Field Museum. Funding for scanning and image processing was provided by a National Science Foundation Assembling the Tree of Life grant (EF-0334961), The Deep Scaly Project: Resolving Squamate Phylogeny using Genomic and Morphological Approaches, to Drs. Jacques Gauthier of Yale University, Maureen Kearney of the Field Museum, Jessie Maisano of The University of Texas at Austin, Tod Reeder of San Diego State University, Olivier Rieppel of the Field Museum, Jack Sites of Brigham Young University, and John Wiens of SUNY Stonybrook.

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 30 September 2004 along the coronal axis for a total of 720 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.053 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.053 mm and a field of reconstruction of 23 mm.

Links

Natrix natrix page on ARKive

Colubridae page from the EMBL Reptile Database

Three-dimensional volumetric renderings of the skull with the hyoid and jaw removed, and of the isolated right mandible. All are 2mb or less.

Skull pitch movie	Skull roll movie
Mandible yaw movie	Mandible pitch movie	Mandible roll movie