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- Lingham-Soliar challenges the idea that the integumentary features of the ornithischian dinosaur Kulindadromeus are feather-like.
- He suggests instead that these structures may be support fibers linked to degraded scales.
- The authors of the text reject this alternative hypothesis, arguing it is improbable based on the preservation and shape of the found structures.
Article 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.
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