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Re: New ankylosaur from Liaoning

*Minmi paravertebra* from Albian Queensland, Australia, showed scutes on its belly in the skin impressions found with it. I think it's a nodosaurid, too.

Not quite a horny plate, but it has adaptations that imply it's a bit more cursorial than the average ankylosaurian, so i don't know, maybe its ancestors had something heavier like a plate there but lost it for weight's sake? Im not sure how likely it is that a bony plate would turn back into a set of scutes though... someone else here will know better.

David Elliott

Ben and Mickey,
    This bony plate on the abdomen interests me.  What other
archosauriforms have this kind of structure?
              -----Ken
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From: "Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer11@msn.com>
Reply-To: Mickey_Mortimer11@msn.com
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: New ankylosaur from Liaoning
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 18:04:25 -0700

Ben Creisler wrote-

>Liaoningosaurus has a large
> bony plate (somewhat shell-like) shielding the abdomen.
> This discovery represents the first record of such a
> structure among dinosaurs.




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