How to use in-sentence of “specimen”:
+ The specimen was probably not fully grown at the time of its death.
+ The fluorescence emitted by the specimen is focused onto the detector.
+ A longer specimen is now placed in “Shastasaurus” rather than “Shonisaurus”.
+ The final two pairs of teeth in this specimen point downward.
+ Dr Paul Barrett, from London’s Natural History Museum, called the specimen a “beautiful fossil”, describing it as a “really rare occurrence of vertebrate material in amber”.
+ Also, I don’t think a privately-owned single specimen will qualify for a binominal nomenclature.
+ The holotype is a fragmentary specimen with a “C.
Example sentences of “specimen”:
+ Only one specimen of it has ever been found.
+ This specimen is the first evidence of well-developed feathers in a large, non-flying dromaeosaur.
+ A type specimen can be assigned when a name is first published, or it can be assigned later.
+ This specimen is the “most complete early human skeleton ever found”.
+ A workshop note records that the first specimen of hard, white and vitrified European porcelain was produced in 1708.
+ A “Tylosaurus” specimen contains the bones of a “Hesperornis” in its gut area.
+ But the type specimen is the most famous kind of type.
+ He was named the type specimen for this new species.
+ The specimen was discovered in 2010.
+ The specimen discovered was a juvenile.
+ The original specimen is housed at the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research.
+ The first platypus specimen arrived in England in 1799 in the form of a skin of a dead platypus, so biologists could study it.
+ It is a very important specimen in that it has fossilized remains of many of its internal organs and muscles.
+ However, one perfectly preserved specimen of “Enalikter” was found in the Silurian of Herefordshire.
+ The second specimen found nearby, and was the head and much of the postcrainal skeleton, minus the tail.
+ In 2010, a team examined numerous points among the feathers of an extremely well-preserved “Anchiornis” specimen to survey the distribution of melanosomes, the pigment cells that give feathers their colour.
+ Only one specimen of it has ever been found.
+ This specimen is the first evidence of well-developed feathers in a large, non-flying dromaeosaur.
More in-sentence examples of “specimen”:
+ Discovered in 1855, it was actually the first specimen recovered but, incorrectly labeled as “Pterodactylus crassipes”, it languished in the Teyler’s Museum in the Netherlands until Ostrom’s 1970 paper.
+ While the first specimen of “Anchiornis” found in the 2000s, preserved only faint traces of feathers around the preserved portion of the body, the well-preserved second specimen showed nearly complete feather preservation, allowing researchers to identify the structure of the feathers and how they were distributed.
+ The species was named in 1858, four years after the first specimen had been found.
+ The German specimen was found in the Solnhofen limestone in Bavaria, over 150 years ago.
+ In 2008, researchers uncovered what they believe is the world’s oldest known full-body impression of a primitive flying insect, a 300 million-year-old specimen from the Carboniferous period.
+ Little additional information was uncovered until 1987, when Canadian Archaeologyarchaeologist Allan Morton discovered fragments of a specimen sticking out of a partially eroded hillside east of Allia Bay, near Lake Turkana, Kenya.
+ This survives as the concept of a type specimen in taxonomy.
+ The museum has a specimen of international importance, the Charnia fossil.
+ In 2002, a single specimen of giant proportions was caught by fisheries trawling off the eastern Chatham Rise, New Zealand.
+ This specimen shows the earliest example of a foot adapted for walking on land.
+ Those that pass through are detected and used to form an image of the specimen at a magnification of about 500,000 times.
+ The Tasmanian Tiger was the largest Dasyuromorphia and the last living specimen of the family Thylacinidae.
+ The oldest known specimen of the ancient human was found in southern Africa.
+ This type specimen has a nearly complete skeleton with traces of feathers, including long tail feathers and large wings.
+ The type specimen is CPC-59, and the type species is “V.
+ The type specimen is “Ceratonia siliqua”.
+ It was thought to be extinct until 1966, when a living specimen was discovered in a ski-hut on Mount Hotham.
+ The first specimen found was just a skull, discovered near Xinmin Township, Pan CountyXinmin in Guizhou Province, China in 2002.
+ Therefore, he concluded that glossolalia is not “a specimen of human language because it is neither internally organized nor systematically related to the world man perceives”.
+ The specimen has advanced ossification and growth rings in the fibula that indicate it was likely eleven years of age when it died.
+ The Type speciestype specimen was found in strata dating to about 70 million years ago.
+ Some Part of Bodhi Tree was sent to Sri Lanka by Ashoka which was planted in 288 BC, making it the oldest verified specimen of any plant.
+ The genus is based on the specimen “BMNH R44529-5”.
+ The type specimen was a nearly complete, articulated skeleton.
+ Discovered in 1855, it was actually the first specimen recovered but, incorrectly labeled as "Pterodactylus crassipes", it languished in the Teyler's Museum in the Netherlands until Ostrom's 1970 paper.
+ While the first specimen of "Anchiornis" found in the 2000s, preserved only faint traces of feathers around the preserved portion of the body, the well-preserved second specimen showed nearly complete feather preservation, allowing researchers to identify the structure of the feathers and how they were distributed.
+ The species was named in 1858, four years after the first specimen had been found.
+ Jane is a fossil specimen of a small tyrannosaurid.
+ A new specimen of “Acrocanthosaurus atokensis” of Oklahoma, USA.
+ The first specimen consisted of a partial jaw, a single neck vertebra, part of the arm and wing bones and the left thigh bone.
+ The sample chamber is the area where the specimen of interest is examined under SEM.
+ A second specimen has connected bones, but lacks the skull.
+ The shape of the pelvis identifies that the specimen was a male.
+ The team leader, paleontologist Barnum Brown, was primarily concerned with excavating and preparing the remains of the ornithopod dinosaur “Tenontosaurus”, but in his field report from the dig site to the American Museum of Natural History, he reported the discovery of a small carnivorous dinosaur close to a “Tenontosaurus” skeleton, “but encased in lime difficult to prepare.” He informally called the animal “Daptosaurus agilis” and made preparations for describing it and having the skeleton, specimen AMNH 3015, put on display, but never finished this work.
+ The “Vegavis” fossil specimen is held by the Museo de La Plata, Argentina.
+ The International Game Fish Association’s all-tackle angling record for a swordfish was a 1,182lb specimen taken off Chile in 1953.
+ In 2013, a study was published that showed that the skull and teeth of a canid, dated to 33,000 years ago, had characteristics closer to a dog than to a wolf, and the authors conclude that “this specimen may represent a dog in the very early stages of domestication, i.e.
+ Built in 1888, is the only specimen of steel construction the Belgium in the Americas.
+ The specimen is so distorted by matrix-filled cracks that meaningful morphological characteristics are next to impossible to assess with confidence.
+ The specimen is unique: unlike most other dromaeosaurs, it had “two” sickle claws on each foot, not just one.
+ The specimen found in Wyoming was only a few millimeters long.
+ The type specimen was discovered in East Kirkton Quarry, Bathgate, Scotland, in 1984.
+ A narrow beam of electrons is moved across the specimen and a picture is built up piece by piece by detecting how the electrons are reflected or absorbed as it moves.
+ The dinosaur is a specimen of “Cetiosaurus oxoniensis”.
+ The size of this specimen suggests a size in life of about 3.3 meters long.
+ The second specimen includes the back end of another skeleton, including the hindlimbs.
+ The genus “Charnia” was named after Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, England, where the first fossilised specimen was found.
+ The type specimen was found in a chalk quarry in Maastricht, Holland.