YPM VPPU.013628 Hoplophoneus primaevus, skull

3D Model

Hoplophoneus primaevus, skull with mandible

(Skull of a saber-toothed cat-like carnivore)

Mammalia; Carnivora; Feliformia; Nimravidae; Hoplophoneinae: Hoplophoneus primaevus

Catalog number: YPM VPPU.013628

Locality: North America; USA; South Dakota; Pennington County

Date specimen collected: 1932

Stratigraphy: Tertiary; Oligocene; White River Grp; Brule Fm

3D Reconstruction performed using AgiSoft MetaShape Professional Version 1.8.3 build 14331 (64 bit). Note: 3D models may contain artifactual photogrammetry reconstruction errors and deviations from true color not present on the actual specimen.

864 images captured by the Computer Operated Photogrammetric Imaging System (COPIS), a project to design and prototype a modular, multi-view imaging system for museum collections. http://copis3d.org/

Model reconstructed by Jeremy D. Pustilnik, Yale University