Re: dino skin

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 96-01-12 23:30:41 EST, MMraptor@aol.com writes:

>> There are SEM photos of a smallish ?maniraptoran specimen found in a
>> calcareous concretion from the Santana Formation (which produces all those
>> nice pterosaurs). Sorry, no feathers, scales, or ossicles--and they would
>> have been preserved had they been present. The material includes a pelvis,
>> hind limbs, and some caudal vertebrae in addition to the soft tissue.
Blood
>> vessels, muscle fibers, other good stuff.
>> 
>This particular species may have had feathers only on the torso, if they
were
>present. 

I wonder whether this theropod might be an _Irritator_(?!). They're both from
the same formation.