RE: Specimen not in collection - usable?

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Tom Holtz wrote:



> There is a category of type specimen called "plastotype": a cast of the
> original holotype. For example, the holotype of Poekilopleuron was
> destroyed, but its plastotype remains as the new type specimen.


Same for _Kakuru kujani_ - although in this case the holotype tibia was not so 
much "destroyed" as "disappeared".  Its disappearance may have something to do 
with the fact that the fossil was opalized. 


Cheers

Tim
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