Response to Comment on "A Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales".
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Abstract
Lingham-Soliar questions our interpretation of integumentary structures in the Middle-Late Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur Kulindadromeus as feather-like appendages and alternatively proposes that the compound structures observed around the humerus and femur of Kulindadromeus are support fibers associated with badly degraded scales. We consider this hypothesis highly unlikely because of the taphonomy and morphology of the preserved structures.
Medical subject headings
- Biological Evolution
- Dinosaurs
- Epidermis
- Feathers