This is one patient who didn’t have to be told to stay perfectly still while getting a CT scan. Nor did technicians have to worry about him becoming claustrophobic while lying in a $900,000 state-of-the-art machine.

And getting his insurance card? No need.

“Mr. Salmon,” you see, is not a living creature. He has long since passed. About 5 million years ago, to be precise.

But his keeper, Edward Davis of the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, was told to put something on his medical form before he got scanned last February at Oregon Imaging Centers in downtown Eugene. So Mr. Salmon it was.

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