Sentences with phrase «museum type specimens»

Not exact matches

Peter Galton, a curatorial affiliate at Yale University's Peabody Museum, says the first stegosaur to be named, known as the «type» specimen, is too incomplete to compare with other fossils (Swiss Journal of Geosciences, DOI: 10.1007 / s00015 -010-0022-4).

But as he traveled through the world's great natural history museums trying to assemble the basic data about Madagascar species, Fisher found that past collectors often failed to label specimens as «types.»

The current researchers performed a careful anatomical comparison on the all bones and referred them to the main type specimen in the Museum.

Concerned with both the literal and the political invisibility of radioactivity, Kriemann worked with scientists at the American Museum of Natural History (New York), the National Archives (Washington) and the Museum of Natural History (Berlin) to produce various versions of an «autoradiograph» — a unique type of photograph that is the result of directly exposing light - sensitive paper to radioactive specimens, such as pechblende.