Re: Young Allosaur feathers?

["Aspidel" <aspidel@wanadoo.be>]

HP Michael Lovejoy wrote:

> One of the models I'm doing at the moment is a 1/35th Allosaur family
group.
> I'm toying with the idea of "feathering" the smallest juveniles, a la
Paul's
> illustration in PDW. The only thing that bothers me is that they aren't
> coelurosaurs.
>
> Anybody got an opinion?

So does Brett Booth :
http://dino.lm.com/images/display.php?id=124

Personnally I don't, but the real question is: have allosaurid skin patches
been found, especially from juvenile specimens?

If not, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. True feathers are
highly unlikely IMHO; some filaments, I don't know.

Cheers - Aspidel.