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Re: cheeky...
all things are "possible", but what is the evidence to support your idea?
>>> <zone65@bigpond.com> 12/Apr/04 >>>
On Tuesday, April 13, 2004, at 01:15 AM, Ken Carpenter wrote:
>
> I do find it odd that Witmer has removed cheeks from his
> reconstruction of Pinacosaurus, since several ankylosaurs have
> osteodermal cheek plates preserved in situ. Since all ankylosaurs have
> the same morphological features in the cheek region (inset teeth;
> change in bone texture at the edge of the buccal emargination, etc.),
> it seems more probable that they all had fleshy cheeks.
Is it possible they had a cheek-like structure similar to that of
snapping turtles?
Peter Markmann