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Published: 2013-03-20 22:47:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 3061; Favourites: 101; Downloads: 0
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Just a Stegosaurus with some kind of speculative soft tissue. Not going for fuzz or bristles this time - merely the old spiky and scaled Thagomizer-Owner you're used to. Or not?Actually I have to commit it looks not exactly like the Stegosaurus I used to know as a kid. But those different sized and shaped scales along with bare skin are quite fitting also, I think.
Coincidentally John Conway seemed to have a similar idea with the plate-basis too , but to be honest, I had sketches of this before I saw his work. Some things seem to flow through.
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I like your depiction, it's nicely done. The speculative integument/ornamentation looks very natural to me, especialy the nasal "crest".
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Einer der interessantesten Rekonstruktionsversuche dieser Gattung seit Jahren, Der Hals errinert mich stark an einen Waran und die Rückenstachleln an Leguane... Mehr davon!
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I suspect the scaled stetching up around the base of the plates would be as fine-graded as the rest of the scales on the body. Integument isn't preserved well for stegosaurs, so I'd think the pebbly structure we assume for them would be fine. The plates are covered in some tissues, likely a close-fitting keratin sheath, but the skin around the base is thicker, more glabrous (full of connective tissue), and likely similar to the base of deer antlers.
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