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Epidermal and dermal integumentary structures of ankylosaurian dinosaurs.
J Morphol
January 2014
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9, Canada.
Ankylosaurian dinosaurs are most notable for their abundant and morphologically diverse osteoderms, which would have given them a spiky appearance in life. Isolated osteoderms are relatively common and provide important information about the structure of the ankylosaur dermis, but fossilized impressions of the soft-tissue epidermis of ankylosaurs are rare. Nevertheless, well-preserved integument exists on several ankylosaur fossils that shows osteoderms were covered by a single epidermal scale, but one or many millimeter-sized ossicles may be present under polygonal, basement epidermal scales.
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