Original paper

An Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid dinosaur with filamentous integumentary structures

Nature50.50
Volume: 458, Issue: 7236, Pages: 333 - 336
Published: Mar 1, 2009
Abstract
Until now all the dinosaurs with feathers or similar integumentary structures discovered have been theropods — carnivorous bipeds that survive today in the form of birds. Feathery structures have been absent among the distantly related ornithischian dinosaurs, with the possible exception of Psittacosaurus, which has quill-like structures on its tail. Zheng et al. now describe an ornithischian with an all-over covering of feather-like structures,...
Paper Details
Title
An Early Cretaceous heterodontosaurid dinosaur with filamentous integumentary structures
Published Date
Mar 1, 2009
Journal
Volume
458
Issue
7236
Pages
333 - 336
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