Coyote12091128

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This skull fails our calibration test and will be rephotographed and replaced.

This applies to the right-side image only. The left image is within tolerance.

• Data Set 51: Coyote skull; Specimen number 12041128; from New Brunswick, Canada
• 12091128 Left Side.JPG

  Figure 1. Left view; click to view.

• 12091128 Right Side.JPG

  Figure 2. Right view; click to view.

• 12091128 Top Side.JPG

  Figure 3. Top view; click to view.

• 12091128 Bottom Side.JPG

  Figure 4. Bottom view; click to view.

This skull is crumbling and flaking. That typically happens when skulls are cleaned using bleach. At least we have a photographic record before it is reduced to a pile of white dust. We will follow up with photographs of what is left in a year or so.