Re: skin fossils

[tlford@ix.netcom.com]

On 03/25/98 12:45:07 you wrote:
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>>Also, I have heard that there is a skin fossil fragment from Tyrannosaurus
>>rex.  Is there any scalation, and if so, how large are the scales?
>
>The specimen, IIRC, was prepared by The Tyrell Museum's
>Darren Tanke, from a T. rex specimen unearthed in Sask., Canada.
>The impression shows pebbly texture, generally similar to
>Edmontosaurus skin.
>

Being a good friend of Darren Tanke, I must make a correction here. The skin 
impression that he 
told me about and sent a cast of, is not from Sask. (Do you mean Scotty? That 
specimen is being 
prepared by Tim Tokaryk and his people) and is of an Albertosaurus (not 
Gorgosaurus). 

The skin impression has rased scales in a hexgonal rowed pattern.

Tracy