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MicroCT scan of axis bone of a mute swan (Cygnus olor) - Supplementary material to "Mayr et al. (2023): Reinterpretation of tuberculate cervical vertebrae of Eocene birds as an exceptional anti-predator adaptation against the mammalian craniocervical killing bite"

DOI: https://doi.org/10.57756/tw1z4s
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Publication date: 04 Dec 2023
Publisher: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHMW)
Collections: 1. Zoology
Instrument: YXLON FF35 CT
Resource type: Dataset
Specimen: NHMW-ZOO1-VS-4896
License: CC BY-NC
CC BY-NC 4.0 International
Tags: Axis Cygnus Mikroct Swan
Chronology: recent
Taxa: Aves
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Winkler V. (2023). MicroCT scan of axis bone of a mute swan (Cygnus olor) - Supplementary material to "Mayr et al. (2023): Reinterpretation of tuberculate cervical vertebrae of Eocene birds as an exceptional anti-predator adaptation against the mammalian craniocervical killing bite". NHMW Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.57756/tw1z4s

Abstract

MicroCT (x-ray microcomputed tomography, YXLON FF35 CT) dataset of an axis bone of an extant mute swan (Cygnus olor). The specimen is part of the bird collection of the first zoological department of the Natural History Museum Vienna.

Usage Notes

System: YXLON FF 35 CT

Beam: FXE Direct Beam

Detector: Perkin Elmer Y.Panel 4343 CT

Scan Parameters: 120 kV, 120 µA, 1 s exposure time, 3600 projection images

Isotropic voxel size: 15 µm

Publications

Mayr, G., Göhlich, U.B., Roček, Z., Lemierre, A., Winkler, V. & Georgalis, G.L. (2023) Reinterpretation of tuberculate cervical vertebrae of Eocene birds as an exceptional anti-predator adaptation against the mammalian craniocervical killing bite. Journal of Anatomy, 00, 1–9. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13980

Downloads

File Description Size
NHMW-Zoo1-VS-4896-Cygnus-olor-Axis_TIF.zip MicroCT TIF image stack and metadata files 6592.83 MB
NHMW-Zoo1-VS-4896-ReconInfos.xml Metadata File of the Reconstruction Parameters 0.01 MB
NHMW-Zoo1-VS-4896-ScanInfos.xml Metadata File of the Scanning Parameters 0.01 MB

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Images

Volume rendering of the axis bone of Cygnus olor
Volume rendering of the axis bone of Cygnus olor
Volume rendering of the axis bone of Cygnus olor
Volume rendering of the axis bone of Cygnus olor