And the holotype specimen is a left lower jaw with teeth in it that is about five centimeters long.

正模标一段长约五厘米的左下颌骨，上面带有牙齿。

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

以 Darwinius 的正模标为例，它一种早期的狐猴样 灵长。

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，古生学需要能够确定他们刚刚在野外发现的化石全新的正模标已描述种的另一个例子。

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

通过查看这个正模标，其他科学应该能够识别该种。

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.

这些其他科学就如何改进我们的工作提出了意见，但每个人都同意他所拥有的一个新种的全标。

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

对于像恐龙这样的生，正模标应该单一化石。

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

为了配合此描述，您需要指定一种称为正模的东西。

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，如果我们发现的角龙骨架只它的后部，我们就无法保密地说它否可能一个新种的全标。

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.

正模标需要易于获取，以便其他古生学有机会确定他们发现的某同一种不同种。