This atlas, published as the fifteenth Memoir of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, represents the culmination of nearly five years of work and thousands of man - hours of digital investigation on the only two
associated, near -
complete skeletons of the dodo in existence.
The collection also includes
complete, or nearly
complete,
skeletons associated with preserved soft tissues such as feathers, fur, skin or even, in some of the salamanders, external gills.