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YPM5010lbl.JPG (58082 bytes)Images of the type specimen of Megatypus ingentissimus Tillyard 1925

A Web Page by Roy J. Beckemeyer

Last Updated 18 December 2002

Thanks to Dr. Tim White of the Yale Peabody Museum for loaning the Tillyard Protodonata type specimens to the Johnston Geology Museum at Emporia State University so that I could work with them.  Thanks also to Dr. Michael Morales for arranging my research associate relationship with the Johnston Geology Museum and for providing space and facilities for my work.  


megingenphoto1.JPG (148335 bytes)megingenphoto2.JPG (88947 bytes)Left: Photo of YPM5010a, the Holotype part of Megatypus ingentissimus

Right: Close up of the fossil taken from the photo at left.

 

 

 

megingen.jpg (93746 bytes)Left: Tillyard's reconstruction of the specimen shown above.

 

 

 

 

Below: Scanned image of the part of the Holotype, YPM5010a:

 

Below: Scanned image of the counterpart Holotype specimen, YPM5010b:

 


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