A new reconstruction of Struthiosaurus austriacus Bunzel 1871
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- Subject Areas
- Evolutionary Studies, Paleontology, Taxonomy, Zoology
- Keywords
- Nodosauridae, Late Cretaceous, Austria, dermal armor, age dimorphism, reconstruction
- Copyright
- © 2017 Frotzler
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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.
- Cite this article
- 2017. A new reconstruction of Struthiosaurus austriacus Bunzel 1871. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2758v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2758v1
Abstract
A novel reconstruction of the nodosaurid dinosaur Struthiosaurus austriacus Bunzel 1871 is presented. Because bones and dermal armor are preserved as disarticulated elements only and because of the lack of field notes from the original excavation(s), any attempt to reconstruct the animal is complicated. To date, no reconstruction is available for Struthiosaurus austriacus. This study primarily focuses on aspects of function and arrangement of dermal armor. The re-investigation of the original material of S. austriacus revealed that - in all likelihood - many plates from the left side of the body may well belong to a single individual. This observation is an important step towards the successful reconstruction of S. austriacus.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.