Osteoderms are bony deposits forming scales, plates, or other structures based in the dermis. Osteoderms are found in many groups of extant and extinct...
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Osteoderms are dermal bone structures that support the upper layer of skin and serve as protection against the elements in a large variety of extinct and...
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Invictarx (section Osteoderms)
of a dorsal rib, complete or partial identifiable osteoderms, and fragments of additional osteoderms. Two other specimens were referred to Invictarx: UMNH...
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Glyptotherium (section Carapace and osteoderms)
single carapace osteoderm that had been collected from the Lower Pleistocene "Equus Beds" of Nueces County, Texas. Cope named his osteoderm Glyptodon peltaliferus...
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collected 77 osteoderms while excavating a Tyrannosaurus specimen in the Lance Formation of Wyoming in 1900. He mentioned these osteoderms (specimen AMNH...
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the basis of a series of associated osteoderms that formed the paramedian and lateral armour. Based on the osteoderms the carapace of Venkatasuchus was...
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far recovered from North America. The specimen also preserved in situ osteoderms, keratin, and skin remains. In 2014, Theropoda Expeditions LLC was excavating...
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Iberosuchus (section Osteoderm)
from very fragmentary fossils, elements of the skull, dentary, teeth and osteoderm. Remains of a mesocrocodylian were found in Portugal, it was named Iberosuchus...
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snouts, erect limbs, and a body ornamented with four rows of plate-like osteoderms (bony scutes). Aetosaur fossil remains are known from Europe, North and...
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built for crushing, and its back was covered with thick hemispherical osteoderms. One study indicated Deinosuchus may have lived for up to 50 years, growing...
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