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

以 Darwinius 的正模标本为例，它是一种早期的狐猴样 灵长类动。

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种。

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

对于像恐龙这样的，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，您还需要指定一种称为正模的东西。

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的工作提出了意见，但每个人都同意他所拥有的是一个新种的全标本。

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.

正模标本需要易于获取，以便其他古家有机会确定他们发现的某是同一种还是不同种。

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，如果我们发现的角龙骨架只是它的后部，我们就无法保密地说它是否可能是一个新种的全标本。

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，古家需要能够确定他们刚刚在野外发现的化石是全新的正模标本还是已描述种的另一个例子。