Tuatara Skull Anatomy
Skull of a Tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus, with bones colored and labelled to demonstrate skull anatomy. 3D model produced from a CT scan of a Florida Museum of Natural History specimen (UF:herp:11978). Segmentation and mesh files generated using VGStudio Max. Meshes further edited and animation produced in Blender. Skull anatomy labelled by Jaimi Gray using Evans, Susan E. “The skull of lizards and tuatara.” Biology of the Reptilia 20 (2008): 1-347. Specimen is an older individual, as indicated by worn down teeth, broken and healed right dentary, and fusion of the quadrate and quadratojugal.