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Natural Science Forum / Biology / Paleontology / April 2004Ornithischian dinosaurs
For the last several years almost all the dinosaur news has centered on the saurischian dinosaurs in particular the theropods/birds. So is there anything interesting/new happening with the ornithischian dinosaurs? Ken > For the last several years almost all the dinosaur news has centered on > the saurischian dinosaurs in particular the theropods/birds. So is there > anything interesting/new happening with the ornithischian dinosaurs? Its been decided that they are infact birds.... ok now that thats out of the way, I think that the discovery of integumentary structures on the tails of some specimens of protoceratops ranks as 'interesting' at least. > ok now that thats out of the way, I think that the discovery of > integumentary structures on the tails of some specimens of > protoceratops ranks as 'interesting' at least. :o Didn't heard of that. What's the source. Links? Articles? Thanks. On the internet I only found (but this is as much interesting), that some structures, that mayby evolved parallel to featheres were found at Psittacosaurus. David. The integumentary structures you speak of were found on Psittacosaurus. They appear to be spines/quills. Gerald Mayr. Gerald Mayr, D. Stefan Peters, Gerhard Plodowski, Olaf Vogel, 2002. Bristle-like integumentary structures at the tail of the horned dinosaur Psittacosaurus. Naturwissenschaften 89(8):361-365. Thanks. David. |
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