Structure from motion reconstruction of a 155–161 million-year-old marine crocodylian fossil (Metriorhynchus superciliosus). Specimen ‘PIMUZ A/III 14’ provided by Marcelo Sanchez from the Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich, Switzerland.
The fossil was scanned by António Martins and Michel C. Milinkovitch to illustrate in 2015 the efficiency of ‘R2OBBIE-3D, our fast robotic high-resolution system for quantitative phenotyping of surface geometry and colour-texture. More than 10 years later, R2OBBIE-3D is still in action in our lab and has been used in many of our research projects.
Check our movies on R2OBBIE-3D here.
The R2OBBIE-3D publication is available here.