Ct Scan And 3-D Printing Used To Reconstruct An Ancient Mollusk

[Oxytropidoceras]

CT Scan and 3-D Printing Help Scientists Reconstruct

an Ancient Mollusk. Jackson Scholl of Geosciences,

University of Texas, Austin, Texas.

http://www.jsg.utexa...ncient-mollusk/

Ancient Mollusk Reconstructed Using New Technology

RedOrbit, Spetember 20, 2102

http://www.redorbit....ltiplacophoran/

Prehistoric "Movie Monster" Mollusk Re-created With

3-D Printer Creature lived about 390 million years ago.

National geographic Daily News, Sept. 18, 2012

http://news.national...ion-3d-animals/

The paper is:

Vinther, J., P. Jell, G. Kampouris, R. Carney, R. A. Racicot

and D. E. G. Briggs,2012, The origin of multiplacophorans

– convergent evolution in Aculiferan molluscs.

Palaeontology. vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 1007-1019

http://onlinelibrary...1180.x/abstract

http://onlinelibrary...ssue-5/issuetoc

Best wishes,

Paul H.