Protofeathers were likely to have existed within the common ancestor of dinosaurs
Yeonsu High School, Incheon, South Korea
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Studies, Molecular Biology, Paleontology, Zoology
- Keywords
- Dinosaur, Feathers, Scales, Protofeathers
- Copyright
- © 2015 Yun
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2015. Protofeathers were likely to have existed within the common ancestor of dinosaurs. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1220v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1220v1
Abstract
In this paper, I comment on Barrett et al. (2015) "Evolution of dinosaur epidermal structures". Though the original authors made some very interesting results, the conclusions made by them are likely influenced by inappropriate or incorrect assumptions such as very little preserved skin fragments represent whole body covering or dinosaurian integumentary structures might represent a degraded collagen fibres. Therefore, their result might represent small size of current datas or preservational bias rather than actual evolutionary history of dinosaurian feathers.
Author Comment
This is a personal comment on Barrett et al. (2015) paper "Evolution of dinosaur epidermal structures".