Re: [dinosaur] Struthiosaurus (nodosaurid ankylosaur), new reconstruction (free pdf)

Subject: Re: [dinosaur] Struthiosaurus (nodosaurid ankylosaur), new reconstruction (free pdf)

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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:52:02 +0000

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Thread-topic: [dinosaur] Struthiosaurus (nodosaurid ankylosaur), new reconstruction (free pdf)

I would take this one with a grain of salt. I both know the author and am working with S. austriacus myself and there is a whole amount of anatomical similarities with other nodosaurids and ankylosaurs in general not taken into account (as can be seen by the amount of sources cited).

F. De Rossi

Am 27.01.2017 4:28 nachm. schrieb Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>:

Ben Creisler

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A new paper in open access:

Norbert Frotzler (2017)

A new reconstruction of Struthiosaurus austriacus Bunzel 1871.

PeerJ Preprints 5:e2758v1

doi: https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2758v1

https://peerj.com/preprints/2758/

A novel reconstruction of the nodosaurid dinosaur Struthiosaurus austriacus Bunzel 1871 is presented. Because bones and dermal armor are preserved as disarticulated elements only and because of the lack of field notes from the original excavation(s), any attempt to reconstruct the animal is complicated. To date, no reconstruction is available for Struthiosaurus austriacus. This study primarily focuses on aspects of function and arrangement of dermal armor. The re-investigation of the original material of S. austriacus revealed that - in all likelihood - many plates from the left side of the body may well belong to a single individual. This observation is an important step towards the successful reconstruction of S. austriacus.