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Rugops Rugosities
Just a thought... Rugops had a sheath of some sort. No doubt about that. Was it
croc-like? Bird-like? A mix? I do not know. one thing I do know is that the
whole situation compares quite nicely to what I had said a while back about
narly-looking *Mujungatholus*. Did Rugops have a crest? Course it did. Was the
crest keratinous? Was it fleshy? Not sure. My guess is fleshy. But, I know that
could be wrong. (Those pits are plain and simply odd.)
Something else... Making outer coverings look like the boney surfaces
underneath. A rugose surface of bone does not necessarily indicate a rugose
surface of the fleshed out animal. In reality, it usually indicates the direct
opposite...
Kris
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