CT Scan of the six-armed brittle star Ophiactis hex (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) – Supplementary material to Thuy et al. (2024): "Fossil evidence for the ancient link between clonal fragmentation, six-fold symmetry and an epizoic lifestyle in asterozoan echinoderms"

DOI: https://doi.org/10.57756/5qej7m
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Publication date: 18 Apr 2024
Publisher: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW)
Collections: Central Research Laboratories , Geology & Palaeontology
Instrument: YXLON FF35 CT
Resource type: Dataset
Specimen: SMNS 70508
License: CC BY
CC BY 4.0 International
Tags: Ct-scan Holotype Type material
Countries: Germany
Chronology: Kimmeridgian
Taxa: Ophiuroidea
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Abstract

MicroCT scan of a the holoype (specimen SMNS 70508) of the new species Ophiactis hex Thuy et al., 2024 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Ophiactidae) from the Nusplingen Quarry on top of Westerberg hill, Nusplingen, Germany; Nusplingen Lithographic Limestone (Nusplingen Formation), Beckeri Zone, Ulmense Subzone, late Kimmeridgian, Late Jurassic.the in the collection of the Palaeontology Department, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart.

Usage Notes

System: YXLON FF35 CT at the NHM Vienna, Austria

Detector: Perkin Elmer Y.Panel 4343 CT

Detail scan:

Beam: FXE Transmission beam

Filter: 0.2 mm Copper

Scan Parameters: 45 kV, 110 µA, 2000 ms exposure time, 1x1 binning, 3600 projection images

Isotropic voxel size: 7.1 µm

Overview scan:

Beam: FXE Transmission beam

Filter: 0.2 mm Copper

Scan Parameters: 65 kV, 165 µA, 2000 ms exposure time, 1x1 binning, 1800 projection images

Isotropic voxel size: 13.1 µm

Publications

Thuy, B., Numberger-Thuy, L.D., Härer, J., Kroh, A., Winkler, V. & Schweigert, G. (submitted) Fossil evidence for the ancient link between clonal fragmentation, six-fold symmetry and an epizoic lifestyle in asterozoan echinoderms. Proceedings of the Royal Society B

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SMNS-70508-Ophiactis-hex-fossil_ReconInfos.xml Reconstruction parameters of the overview microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508) 0 MB
SMNS-70508-Ophiactis-hex-fossil_ScanInfos.xml Scanning parameters of the overview microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508) 0.01 MB
SMNS-70508-Ophiactis-hex-fossil_TIF.zip TIFF image stack of the overview microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508) 5073.16 MB
SMNS-70508-Ophiactis-hex-fossil-detail_ReconInfos.xml Reconstruction parameters of the detail microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508) 0 MB
SMNS-70508-Ophiactis-hex-fossil-detail_ScanInfos.xml Scanning parameters of the detail microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508) 0.01 MB
SMNS-70508-Ophiactis-hex-fossil-detail_TIF.zip TIFF image stack of the detail microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508) 9396.96 MB

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Picture of the overview microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508)
Picture of the overview microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508)
Picture of the overview microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508)
Picture of the overview microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508)
Picture of the detail microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508)
Picture of the detail microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508)
Picture of the detail microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508)
Picture of the detail microCT scan of Ophiactis hex (SMNS 70508)