Re: Thescelosaurus question

["Simon M. Clabby" <dinowight@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- MariusRomanus@aol.com wrote: > I've been looking
around the web, and also within
> the DML archives, in an effort to find a clear
> answer as to what the concensus is for
> Thescelosaurus to have had scutes/osteoderms. Some
> say yes, others say no, and others don't know for
> certain (probable crocodilian, no other
> hypsilophodont has been found with them so it
> doesn't have them either by default, etc).

Not entirely true. Dermal armour in Hypsilophodon has
been recorded, albeit on only one specimen, BMNH
R2477, from the Isle of Wight. These "osteoderms" were
described as irregular polygons, with "one surface
granular" and "the other smooth and furrowed by a
vascular net", and were found near the skull, (Hulke,
1874). Nopcsa (1905) also noted this, and even figured
them (1905, fig. 1), as did Hulke (1874, Pl 3, fig 1).

Simon M. Clabby

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