Life Sciences and cultural heritage Figure 1. (a) rendering of the isolated teeth and skull meshes aligned on a picture of the specimen; (b) isolated skull and mandible meshes in all views; (c) isolated upper teeth (purple) and lower teeth (light blue) both in occlusal view; (d) potential pathologies; left, retroarticular bone spur in Acynodon adriaticus (purple arrow) and similar bone projection in a pathological American alligator (centre, purple arrow); right, CT slice of the lower right 15th tooth position with highlighted alveolus (dotted line) containing two separate tooth elements (blue). Scale bars = 50 mm. M. Muscioni1,2, A.A. Chiarenza3, D.B.H. Fernandez4,5, D. Dreossi4, F. Bacchia6 F. Fanti1,2 1 Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy 2 Geological Collection "Giovanni Capellini Museum", Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna Bologna, Italy 3 Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London, UK 4 Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Trieste, Italy 5 Physics Department, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy 6 Zoic Limited Liability Company, Trieste, Italy e-mail: marco.muscioni2@unibo.it Acknowledgments MM PhD project is funded by NextGenerationEU— Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR)— XXXIX cycle, STVA University of Bologna, and ZOIC s.r.l. AAC was supported by the Royal Society Newton International Fellowship (NIF\ R1\231802). DBHF PhD project is funded by the Programma Operativo Nazionale (PON). Original paper M. Muscioni et al., Anat. Rec. 307, 3653 (2024); DOI: 10.1002/ar.25574. Fig. 1 Elettra Highlights 2024–2025 63
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