Possible Skin of Tyrannosaurids

["Larry Dunn" <saurosuchus@hotmail.com>]

If Tyrannosaurids evolved from smaller coelurosaurs that were covered with 
downy fibers, and may have been secondarily featherless, is it probable that 
they were not scaly after all, but rather largely wrinkly-skinned, with 
scales limited to their heads and legs?

(I don't recall whether the little coelurosaur specimens found over the past 
few years with integumentary fibers also had scaly skin impressions.)

Larry Dunn
"You want the truth?  You can't HANDLE the truth!" -- Gregory Paul on 
feathered dinosaurs, 1988

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