Re: Naked theropods (was RE: Phil Currie celebration, tyrant skin, and other things)

["Demetrios M. Vital" <vita0015@umn.edu>]

HP Tracy Ford states in a Drawing Dinos segment for Prehistoric Times that
hadrosaurs lacked scutellate tarsi.  Crocs don't either, as far as I
know...

-Demetrios Vital



On 16 Jul 2001, Bruce E Shillinglaw wrote:
> Hi, All!
>     For what it's worth, I noticed while sketching the hadrosaur "mummy"
at
> the AMNH, that the scales along the forearm seemed to be larger and
heavier
> than the scales on the rest of the body. The head, unfortunately, seems
> pretty much plain skull - though there did seem to be some skin
impressions
> left within the naris... (could just as easily have been an artifact of
> preparation...)
>             B.