Re: Integument Structure in Ornithischian Dinosaurs (Russian paper now translated)

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

The Springer pdf link is now online:

V. R. Alifanov, S. V. Saveliev, E. Yu. Tereshchenko, V. V. Artemov,
and A. Yu. Seregin (2014)
Integument Structure in Ornithischian Dinosaurs (Hypsilophodontia,
Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of Transbaikalia.
Paleontological Journal 48(5): 523-533
DOI: 10.1134/S0031030114050025
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0031030114050025



On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ben Creisler
> bcreisler@gmail.com
>
> The original Russian version of the this article was cited back in
> August with a very rough English translation of the title and
> abstract.
>
> http://dml.cmnh.org/2014Aug/msg00086.html
>
>
> The official English version of the paper is now out in the
> Paleontological Journal, so here is an updated citation along with a
> news story in Russian.
>
> (This Russian research on "hypsilophodonts" from Kulinda has become
> controversial because of the more fully described "feathered" taxon
> Kulindadromeus that is based on fossil material found at the same site
> in Siberia by other researchers.)
>
>
> V. R. Alifanov, S. V. Saveliev, E. Yu. Tereshchenko, V. V. Artemov,
> and A. Yu. Seregin (2014)
> Integument Structure in Ornithischian Dinosaurs (Hypsilophodontia,
> Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of Transbaikalia.
> Paleontological Journal 48(5): 523-533
> DOI: 10.1134/S0031030114050025
> http://www.maik.ru/cgi-perl/search.pl?type=abstract&name=paleng&number=5&year=14&page=523
>
> [I don't have the pdf link as yet from Springer.]
>
> Integumentary structures of ornithischain dinosaurs of the taxon
> Hypsilophodontia (Ornithopoda) from the Ukureiskaya Formation (Upper
> Jurassic) of the Kulinda locality (Transbaikal Region, Russia) are
> described in detail. It is shown that members of this group had
> so-called bristle scales, integumentary appendages previously unknown
> in ornithischian dinosaurs. These are relatively small horn plates
> embedded in the skin, the distal margin of which has several long,
> flat, and probably constantly growing bristles. The monobristle
> variant of bristle scale is probably homologous to the protofeather of
> theropods; if this is the case, it is possible to reconstruct the
> protofeather as an elongated and constantly growing scale.
>
>
> News story in Russian:
>
>
> http://www.strf.ru/material.aspx?CatalogId=222&d_no=87193#.VDBs6_ldXTo