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Published: 2013-03-19 15:29:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 2471; Favourites: 54; Downloads: 0
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We see Sinosauropteryx prima in relatively few ways; mostly, it's feathery, or at least filamentous. Currie and Chen in the early 2000s described what might very well have been true pennaceous, stage III feathers on the body, and with that I've built this integument and design to reflect these. The tail may very well have supported longer, more colorful feathers, while the finer stuff covered the body. The short and massive arms here may thus have supported a fan-like spray, but I've restricted it from the hand proper given how short and primitive the hand configuration is.More earth tones, more warm stuff, very color. This is the second preview to my upcomming post on whether or not scales were found on this animal. This is the first of two reconstructions, the second will appear in that upcoming post. The first preview is here: [link]
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SinosauropteryxΒ΄s tail may have been strip-colored as suggested by the melanosomes preserved in the filaments.
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There is the implication that the tail was striped, I understand that, but this reconstruction pretends that isn't the case. I'm not settled on the evidence for the specific colors that the melanosomes so far found suggest. I can be different!
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Compelling reconstruction. Looking forward to read the post when it's done. 
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I am going to avoid discussing particular color patterns for now, save to say that I was not thinking of the implied color patterns or tail-banding when I was doing this. I may modify the illustration before the post goes live to correspond, though Matt Martyniuk has already done a great job (available on Wikipedia's page for the critter: [link] )
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True. Sorry for bothering.
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No, it's a fair thing to say: If I'm coloring this, and there're suggestions for better color schemes that match the fossils, pointing that out is good science.
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Stage 3 feathers on a compy? WOW, but not totally unexpected if true
Coincidentally i draw two C. longipes for the AY contest sporting, among a great wealth of fluffy, sparrow-like feathers, short pennaceous stuff on their arms...
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Perfectly reasonable, given Sinosauropteryx prima and Sciurimimus albersdoerferi.
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And I like it. Plus, the arms and tail aside, stage III body feathers probably wouldn't look too difference in texture from stage I protofeathers in most drawings that don't put a too high emphasis on plumage texture, which is a bit of a relief
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This is quite true. I did try to work rounded structures around so as to imply feathers in the traditional sense, with vanes and such.
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That was really nice work!
An seriously, what's up with the fan-like spray? Is it came from tail feather or it came from a wing feather?
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Researchers found that there are some down-like feathers on the tail region. I am speculating that perhaps occasionally a male will sport brighter display feathers so's he can make with the love.
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Wow!
Right!?
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Well, no. This is traditional reconstruction. It's not CERTAIN that the feathers are what are called Stage III (central rachis, barbs along the rachis forming two vanes, no barbules), or are merely Stage I (a single filament, looks like a hair). My ordinary pattern is to be conservative -- go with the least speculation, the most grounded support -- in which case we'd be left with merely Stage I filaments, but wary of the fact that normal feathers will look like filaments when squished, wet, and otherwise what you'd expect when an animal dies like this guy did. There's a good chance that this guy has the Stage III stuff, but for the sake of reconstruction, I favor Stage I. This illustration goes the other way -- it's a bit more daring. It's not an All Yesterdays type drawing.
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