The Minaret Skull

I can't watch YouTube just now. Got a picture of the skull? My google-fu is weak today, apparently.
 
So this is another example of using one unsubstantiated claim to bolster a separate unsubstantiated claim.
 
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GT/CS said:
There are no photographs and it wasn't a complete skull, just the top and rear.
Completeness isn't an insurmountable issue. I'd prefer jaws and teeth, but higher skull material can still tell us a lot.

As for the lack of photographs, it's rather deplorable. The first link isn't exactly informative, either. "It's somewhere in the UCLA collections!" doesn't fly--I use the University of California Museum of Paleontology website quite extensively, and can attest to the staff's ability to create easy-to-use records. (This database includes Recent material, due to some interesting climatological and ecological shifts in the past 10k years, so this skull should be included.)
 

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