New paper: pneumatic dorsal ribs in Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus
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New paper out today with Logan King, Julia McHugh, and Brian Curtice, on
pneumatic ribs in Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus (King et al. 2024). This one
had an...
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It looks like one of those potholes aka "Fake Dinosaur Dance Floor"
Pineal foramen?
The orbit of a dinocephalian - perhaps Moschops or a related form?
I'm thinking it is somesort of puncture. A penetration of the bone through either a bite or infection.
It's a dinosaur dance floor! Oh wait...
The aperture appears to be surrounded by a raised rim with regular segmentation of that rim, and this reminds me of the coossified scleral ossicles in ankylosaurs and ceratopsians. The apperture is less than an inach across, which makes me wonder if it really is an orbit, but from the appearance and the rough texture around it to the smooth region in the upper left, I am guessing this is an ankylosaurian (nodosaurid?) skull, rotated so that the maxillary margin is facing to the upper left. It's just a casual guess.
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