RE: T-rex skin?

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Cliff Green
>
> Dear Jordan and List,
>
>     Who has skin impressions of tyrannosaurs? I 've heard rumours
> that Phil
> Currie found some, but I didn't know of any published
> information. And Tom,
> I'm tired of waiting for the @&% paper. :-)

Well, learn patience anyway... :-)

Nevertheless, if you troll the DML archives, you can find all the
descriptions that are currently available.  Namely, all puroported
impressions of tyrant skin are small (the size of a playing card, or maybe a
bit larger), are not found wrapped around the skeleton (and thus their
identity is not as secure as we'd like), and show extremly small mosaic
scales relative to (among others) those on the sides of ceratopsians and
hadrosaurids.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
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