File:Daspletosaurus Torosus Steveoc Flipped.jpg
Daspletosaurus torosus restoration,
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18 March 2007 (original upload date)
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Originally from File:Daspletosaurus torosus steveoc.jpg.
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Steveoc 86 at English Wikipedia
- • Based proportionally on a Gregory Paul skeletal reconstruction in Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Tyrant King by Peter Larson and Kenneth Carpenter (2008).
- • A few Skin impressions are known for tyrannosaurids which show lightly Pebbled (scaley) skin. The scales are small, averaging 2.4mm. Skin impressions from the closley related Gorgosaurus are reported to show both smooth, naked skin and scales.
- However, most coelurosaur fossils show feathers covering thier bodies and the smaller basal tyrannosauriod Dilong and the larger tyrannosauroid Yutyrannus also show feathers. This raises the probability that, derived tyrannosaurs had a mix of feathers and scales on different parts of the body or that feathers were lost as individuals reach maturity
- • The muscles are based on a diagram by Scott Hartman [1] with some details from.
- • The colours and patterns, as with nearly all reconstructions of prehistoric creatures, are speculative.
References
- ↑ Paul, Gregory S. (2008) "The extreme lifestyles and habits of the gigantic tyrannosaurid superpredators of the Late Cretaceous of North America and Asia" in Tyrannosaurus rex, the Tyrant King (Life of the Past), Bloomington: Indiana University Press, p. 316 ISBN: 0-253-35087-5.
- ↑ Currie, Philip; Badamgarav, Demchig; Koppelhus, Eva. (2003). "'The First Late Cretaceous Footprints from the Nemegt Locality in the Gobi of Mongolia'" (PDF). Ichnos 10 (1): 1-13. Archived from the original on 2009-07-20. Retrieved on 2016-05-17.
- ↑ Currie, P. (2001). 2001 A. Watson Armour Symposium: The Paleobiology and Phylogenetics of Large Theropods. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
- ↑ Carpenter, Kenneth (1997) "Tyrannosauridae" in Currie, Philip J. & Padian, Kevin (eds.). , ed. Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 768 ISBN: 0-12-226810-5.
- ↑ Xu, X., Norell, M. A., Kuang, X., Wang, X., Zhao, Q., Jia, C. (2004). "Basal tyrannosauroids from China and evidence for protofeathers in tyrannosauroids". Nature 431: 680–684. DOI:10.1038/nature02855.
- ↑ (2012). "A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China" (PDF). Nature 484: 92–95. DOI:10.1038/nature10906. PMID 22481363.
- ↑ Persons, Scott; Currie, Philip. (2010). "'The Tail of Tyrannosaurus: Reassessing the Size and Locomotive Importance of the M. caudofemoralis in Non-Avian Theropods'". The Anatomical Record 294: 119-131.
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