Figure 4
Scanned fossil material and its applications: (a) 3D rendering of 73 fossil frog ilia scanned in a single tube, (b) a subsample of varanid osteoderms in 3D, (c) mandible of the rainforest rodent Pogonomys from the Riversleigh World Heritage site with molars colour coded and jaw bone rendered semi-transparent, (d) surface mesh of the same specimen composed of 109,213 vertices (file size 10.5 MB), (e) photograph of children holding a 3D print of enlarged fossil skink jaws at Capricorn Caves Fossil Open Day, (f) point cloud comparison of fossil tree frog (Hylidae) ilia found in Capricorn Caves at 10–20 cm depth (left) and 40–50 cm depth (right), representing a time difference of 2–3,000 years. Warmer colours denote regions with greater shape differences, as estimated in CloudCompare v.2.10.2.
