Sentences with phrase «holotype specimen»
This holotype specimen — the single physical example of a species — is part of the Burke Museum's vertebrate paleontology collection.
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About 75 % of all Allosaurus fossils have been recovered from the Morrison Formation totalling more than sixty partial and nearly - complete specimens, including the first holotype specimen.
The holotype specimen was collected in Madagascar in 1967 and is housed among the collection of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris, France.
The holotype specimen, used to describe the species, was a juvenile male given the name Karabo.
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The holotype (the name - bearing specimen of this new species) was collected during fieldwork off Kudat in Malaysian Borneo, funded by WWF - Malaysia.
The comparison with the skull of the male holotype allowed the scientists to assign the female specimen to its species.
A holotype is a unique specimen defining a new species.