Demonstrates improved skull identification in Peramelemorphia, suggesting new methods for paleontological studies.
The virtual 3D-reconstruction of a fragmented skull of a representative of Peramelemorphia (bandicoots and bilbies) using high-resolution surface scans proved to be a useful method for correcting its identification. Originally identified as and accordingly inscribed with Chaeropus castanotis (syn. Chaeropus ecaudatus ), i.e. a southern pig-footed bandicoot, it turned out to be the skull of a southern long-nosed bandicoot ( Perameles nasuta ). The provenance of the skull remains obscure.
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