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Re: Ornithischian with complex feather-like structures found in Siberia (SVP abstract)



I was looking forward to this as well.  I believe it was cancelled because 
Pascal was in the hospital ( non-life threatening ).   I likened the experience 
to having the stars show up on the red carpet but the movie is cancelled.

  Is there anything formal on this?

D

On Nov 4, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Ben Creisler
> bcreisler@gmail.com
> 
> 
> This abstract from the SVP meeting refers to the small feathered
> ornithischian found in Chita, Siberia, preserved in volcanic ash.  See
> earlier DML posting, where it's informally called "Kulindodromeus":
> 
> http://dml.cmnh.org/2013Jul/msg00294.html
> 
> 
> 
> Symposium 4 (Saturday, November 2, 2013, 9:30 AM)
> 
> FEATHER-LIKE STRUCTURES AND SCALES IN A JURASSIC NEORNITHISCHIAN
> DINOSAUR FROM SIBERIA
> GODEFROIT, Pascal, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 
> Brussels,
> Belgium; SINITSA, Sofia, Institute of Natural Resources, Ecology and
> Cryology, SB
> RAS, Chita, Russia; DHOUAILLY, Danielle, Université Joseph Fournier, La 
> Tronche,
> France; BOLOTSKY, Yuri, Institute of Geology and Nature Management, FEB RAS,
> Blagoveschensk, Russia; SIZOV, Alexander, Institute of the Earth’s
> Crust, SB RAS,
> Irkutsk, Russia
> 
> Recent discoveries in Middle–Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous
> deposits from northeastern China have revealed that numerous theropod
> dinosaurs were covered by feathers. Furthermore, filamentous
> integumentary structures were also recently described in rare Early
> Cretaceous ornithischian dinosaurs from Liaoning Province in China.
> Whether these filaments can be regarded as epidermal and therefore
> part of the evolutionary lineage towards feathers remains
> controversial. Here we describe a new basal neornithischian dinosaur,
> based on isolated bones and partial skeletons collected in two
> monospecific bonebeds from the Middle–Late Jurassic Kulinda locality
> in the Transbaikal region (Russia). Varied integumentary structures
> were found directly associated with skeletal elements, supporting the
> hypothesis that simple filamentous feathers, as well as compound
> feather-like structures comparable to those in theropods, were
> widespread amongst the whole dinosaur clade. Moreover, scales along
> the distal tibia and on the foot closely resemble the
> secondarily-appearing pedal scales in extant birds. More surprisingly,
> dorso-ventral movements of the tail were prevented by large imbricated
> scales on its dorsal surface. It is hypothesized that, at the same
> time early feathers evolved within the whole dinosaur clade, genetic
> mechanisms limiting the growth of long epidermal structures on the
> distal portion of the hind limb and on the tail were selected as they
> facilitate bipedal terrestrial locomotion.
> 
> ==
> 
> Here's a photo from 2012 of scales that may be from the same kind of dinosaur:
> 
> http://www.interfax-russia.ru/Siberia/view.asp?id=340449