Well lookie here… it’s a new Mystery CT slice challenge! And it’s appearing while Society of Vertebrate Paleontology members are busy drinking and eating at the conference’s welcome reception– how naughty of me!
What is it, what species, etc.– tell me what you can.
RULE: Your answer must involve excessive alliteration!!!
Prodigious perambulations of appropriate prose promise to procure prodigious points!
Remember: the scoreboard is here.
Difficulty: lumpy + alliteration + possible intoxication if you are an SVP attendee (John whistles innocently).
Stomach-Churning Rating: 1/10 unless you have lump-associated PTSD.
Proceed, plucky puzzle ponderers!
EDIT: These images give the answer and show some cool features. It’s an Asian elephant skull, NHMUK 1984.516, of a juvenile animal (probably a UK zoo animal). Gotta love that pneumaticity!
And another view:
What's In John's Freezer? 
terrific trabecular traits trend towards telling typology. Plentiful plates plus plus, size suggestive of serious skull. Echoes of elephant, alternatively avian, in that case condyle from femur of big bird.
Well, well, well. A whale in the well.
A seriously cerebral cerebellum seen sitting somewhat south of said cerebellum.
I propose a perfectly proportioned porpoise.
I expect an expanse of elephantine encephalic enlargement or a transverse transect through trunkish turbinates.
Devilishly detailed distal femur of a looming-ly large awesome avian, an ostrich or emu. Tricky trabecular traits tell of theropod (or terror-pod, in honor of Halloween!)
Bubbly baculum bits.
Bawdy blogger.
Symmetry suggests sagittal segment,
a coronal cut cultivates the concept of the cranium .
Easy explanation expounds an element
from the far frontier of the femorium.
But this boisterious bauble
deigns to delve to disenchanting directions.
A floppy flamingo frustrum,
or erstwhile enfeathered ‘elation
should serve to satisfy your satanic solicitudes.
Lovely litanies to the lumpy puzzle have been poised, but belatedly the beast was best (and first) benamed by Michael Doube! It is indeed an elephant; new pics added above to show more. Tori Herridge and I scanned it a couple of weeks ago. Clues include the scale (it’s big; field of view of my typical CTs are ~50cm; the CT table is visible at the bottom of the image and is about 40cm across) and the pneumaticity and the double-lumpedness of this section of the cranium.
Scoreboard updated: +5 points to Mike, +3 to Paolo, and +2 to everyone else! I profess plentiful praise for playing, people! Oh and +1 extra to Jaime for the best alliteration!