Take the holotype of Darwinius, an early lemur-like primate.

以 Darwinius 正模标本为例，它是一种早猴样 灵长类动物。

By looking at this holotype specimen, other scientists should be able to identify the species.

通过查看这个正模标本，其他科家应该能够识别该物种。

For something like dinosaurs, the holotype would be single fossil.

对于像恐龙这样生物，正模标本应该是单一化石。

To go along with this description, you also need to designate something called a holotype.

为了配合此描述，您还定一种称为正模东西。

These other scientists provided comments on how to improve our work, but everyone agreed that what he had was the holotype of a new species.

这些其他科家就如何改进我们工作提出了意见，但每个人都同意他所拥有是一个新物种全标本。

The holotype needs to be accessible so that other paleontologists have the opportunity to determine if something that they have found is the same or different species.

正模标本易于获取，以便其他古生物家有机会确定他们发现某物是同一物种还是不同物种。

So if all we find of a ceratopsian skeleton is the rear portion of it, we would not be able to confidentially say if it could be the holotype for a new species.

因此，如果我们发现角龙骨架只是它后部，我们就无法保密地说它是否可能是一个新物种全标本。

New fossils are found all the time, and paleontologists need to be able to determine if what they've just found in the field is a brand new holotype or another example of an already described species.

新化石一直在被发现，古生物家能够确定他们刚刚在野外发现化石是全新正模标本还是已描述物种另一个例子。