[Nhcoll-l] Preparation of small herp skulls

[Elizabeth Wommack]

Hi Amos,

I'd recommend working with a dermestid colony if you can.

I tried soaking bird skeletons here in WY, and I lost bone structures as
well. With our dermestid colony I've managed to clean small skeletons of
all the vertebrate groups.

cheers,
Beth

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 4:05 AM, Amos Belmaker <belmakera at tauex.tau.ac.il>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> We are having problems with preparing skulls of small herps. They keep
> falling apart. We currently put them in water.
>
>
> Ideally we would like a method that would allow us to setup and then
> "forget" about it until we can process the skull. While we could monitor
> the preparations more frequently to catch them before they collapse it does
> constrain our schedule.
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Amos
>
>
>
> *Amos Belmaker, *Ph.D.
>
> Bird collection manager, The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History,
> Tel-Aviv University, Israel
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-- 
Elizabeth Wommack, PhD
Curator and Collections Manager of Vertebrates
University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates
Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center
University of Wyoming, Laramie
Laramie, WY 82071
ewommack@ <ewommack at berkeley.edu>uwyo.edu
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