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i was asleep when you posted this but ever since i was a fetus my fav dino was the mighty god-like t.rex, it had horn-like osteoderms above its eyes which makes it look like an absolute king, another one is pachyrhinosaurus lakustai, all because of its 3 horns on the frill

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2021-11-25

Ep.10 of is here! Titansosaur osteoderms, Ulughbegsaurus, & Kariridraco in the news. We discuss Zallinger's Age of Reptiles mural (*heavenly choir*) for VDA, &
& I interview !

https://t.co/2WGyqVGOS0

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2021-09-28

Spicomellus, SPICOMELLUS!!!!!
Osteoderms fused to ribs! We might be missing here a whole radiation of bizarre thyreophorans.

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2021-09-24

Good day to everyone but nodosaur osteoderms.

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2021-08-01

Vancleavea is a rad looking critter. Why don't we see it more often, it had a long neck, osteoderms for a TAIL FIN, wicked canine teeth, osteoderm chainmail. Its a truly bizarre organism & that's saying something for Triassic taxa

(Paleoart by Tas Dixon, Sean Murtha, & Gabuded)

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2021-07-02

I did more sauropod-like appearance of Diablosaurus. My version still retains horns, osteoderms and original color scheme. Here's original rnino-like design (© Weta Workshop):

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2021-01-23

In reality, these fossils do not belong to Triceratops. They are actually 3 osteoderms from Denversaurus and a squamosal horn from Stygimoloch/Pachycephalosaurus. The squamosal in particular is identical to the back spikes on Knight's Agathaumas, which is what really convinced me

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2020-12-08

Goddamn, it's again?
Really reminds me that I gotta look back into doing more skeletals, already got ideas for a sorta reference chart on croc osteoderms

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2020-10-13

Sky Bison: A giant Lasiocampid moth who shed its wings after obtaining airbending by living and feeding on the backs of Lion Turtles.

Turtleduck: A derived relative of Liaoningosaurus with a shortened tail and large tuberculate back osteoderms.

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2020-09-29

Suchomimus for example looks to be based on 's skeletal. And their Ankylosaurus (though it still has VERY inaccurate osteoderms) is at least closer to the real animal than the spike-laden nodosaur-like creature from Jurassic World.

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2020-09-04

Glyptodon

A car sized armored mammal related to modern armadillos, some of its fossils where believed to be megatherium before parts of the carapace where found

ALT: it was unable to withdraw its head into the caparace, but both the head and tail had osteoderms for protection

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2020-08-12

Armadillosuchus

A surprisingly mammal like crocodylomorph, it had flexible armor under its skin instead of the usual osteoderms

ALT: the armor was placed in "bands" along the body that made it flexible, and even behind the neck, however the tail was a lot more crocodile like

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2020-07-05

Ceratosaurs are often touted as ‘the scaly Theropods’ given their primitive heritage and evidence of scales, feature scales and osteoderms. However, given the likelihood that early Dinosaurs had them (mostly in arid climates), it shouldn’t be ruled out that they were all shed.

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2020-07-04

I talk in the article about how I don't like the osteoderms, but mostly the proportions are just more off, the legs are too long, the tail is too small, the head is miles too big, and obviously the whole animal is massive. The juvenile isn't perfect but it is much closer.

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2020-06-06

Saltasaurus had bony plates embedded in its skin (Called osteoderms). ALSO PLEASE CHECK OUT ITS ORB EGG.

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2020-05-09

This is especially curious when Litorosuchus, Vancleavea's close relative, has quite blocky, vertical neural spines and shorter osteoderms, more like those on sculling reptiles. Why the difference? Is there some functional difference in the way each 'vancleavean' swam? (4/5)

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2020-05-05

One of the cooler fossils we’ve found in A slice through the backbone of an armored pareiasaur, you’re seeing the vertebrae with the osteoderms ‘floating’ in the rock above. . Art by Bogdanov.

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2020-04-03

My latest paper on 's exceptionally preserved looking at the shape & allometry of osteoderms is now out in https://t.co/97y6B7ggox

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2017-11-30