D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum 3D - Paca Skull

Micro CT scan of a Paca skull from the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum at the University of Dundee.

Pacas have very distinctive skulls due to unusually large pneumatic chambers in the cheek region.

Cuniculus paca Length: 14.5 cm DUNUC 2167

Scanned with a Nikon XT H 225ST micro CT scanner. The resulting file is exported as an stl. and imported in to Zbrush. Texture is added from photographs using the Spotlight function and Polypainting.

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