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"
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