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Concavenator has two humps
Both the text and the life illustration of Concavenator show a single hump
just before the hips. But the tail base neural spines are also elongated
while those over the pelvis were apparently not, so there are two humps (there
may be a less extreme hip dip in Ouranosaurus). The arrangement tends to
favor that dinosaur sails were for display rather than supporting fat deposits
in at least some cases.
Hopefully this example will establish that the presence of scales on a
dinosaur specimen does not exclude the presence of feathers elsewhere on the
animal. And with bristles etc showing up hither and yon in the group it is
highly plausible that feathers go way back into basal theropods - as per the
old
Sarah Landry feathered Coelophysis (=Syntarsus) in Bakker's 75 Sci Amer
article.
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