Now there's the sort image you certainly don't see in most paleontological textbooks, or even technical articles. As large (if not larger, depending on your monitor) as the original specimen, in full color and fully focused throughout the depth of field. Virtually all PaleoBase records contain these sorts of images. What better way to learn about and correctly identify fossils! And there's still more. The image window can magnify or reduce the size of the image and you can scroll across a magnified image to view whatever feature you want, close up. Of course, full specimen information (including horizontal and vertical scale bar lengths) is provided with every image, along with helpful notes that explain what you're looking at. The specimens used in PaleoBase databases come from The Natural History Museum's unrivaled collections from around the world and are housed in a special part of the Department of Palaeontology's collections so that they can be quickly and easily accessed. To return to the gallery display place the mouse cursor over the image and press the mouse button once.

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