Re: cheeky...

["Ken Carpenter" <KCarpenter@dmns.org>]

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