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Re: Stego plates
On Sun, 28 Jan 1996 Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
> The shapes and arrangement of the plates were tested for cooling properties
> in wind-tunnel experiments in the 1970s, and it was found that the
> arrangement in which the plates alternated from side to side along the back
> did the best job of cooling the animal. This nicely accounts for this unusual
> arrangement in the Morrison stegosaurs and probably all the other advanced
> stegosaurs (family Stegosauridae), too.
Are there any other stegosaurs besides Stegosaurus (and Diracodon,
if we treat that as a separate genus) which have the alternating plates,
then?