Re: no feathers on Pelicanimimus

[Jeff Poling <jpoling@dinosauria.com>]

At 05:57 PM 6/10/97 +0200, nino@uam.es wrote:
>We actually have the anterior part of the Pelecanimimus (say, from the
>anterior end of the ilium to the head, with both forelimbs), and there is no
>remains of any kind of insulation. It has a naked skin, without any remains
>of scales, hair of feathers.

>The hairlike structures we though could be feathers or something like that
>become muscular remains (I think it could be the same in Sinosauropteryx)and
>the wrinkled skin.So, Pelecanimimus has no insulatory structures in the
>anterior part of the body.

   Given that there are no remains of scales etc., and given the featherlike
impressions were musculature, is it possible that the true nature of any
possible integument simply was not preserved?

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