Re: skin fossils

["Jaime Headden" <jaemei@hotmail.com>]

<I have never seen an illustration of the fossilized skin of Carnotaurus 
sastrei. My understanding is that it contains small tubercle-like scales 
with larger scales or plates in a more less regular pattern. Is any of 
the skin of the head preserved?  How large are the scales?>

Of the head? Not that I'm aware of, though the neck shows many folds on 
the sides; the pattern is large tubercles surrounded by a ring of 
smaller turbercles, and the rest is yet smaller tubercles, along the 
tail and neck.

Jaime A. Headden

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