Tenontosaurus tilletti LL. 12275 Skull

3D Model

A preliminary photoscan of the skull of LL. 12275, Manchester Museum’s Tenontosaurus tilletti, from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation, USA. This skull was obtained by the museum in the late 1990s.

The skull is heavily plastered, and there are issues with the assembly of the real material. The left premaxilla, maxillary tooth row, postorbital, jugal, quadratojugal, and quadrate are mostly genuine. The left side of the skull is more fragmentary. Large portions of the skull roof are real and in good condition. Plastered regions and assembly issues obscure the occipital region. The palate appears to be almost entirely plastered. Large portions of the braincase may be genuine, but it is difficult to tell due to the plaster.

Some of the internal details have not been captured by the photoscanning process, but the external shape is a dead-ringer for the real object. I also used blender’s sculpt module to enhance the relief around the toothrows, as noise flattened out these regions on the first pass.