References & Sources - January 16, 1999

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Getting under a dinosaur's skin

New discoveries of fossilized skin are giving paleontologists a feel for what dinosaurs looked like.

References:

Anderson, B.G., S.G. Lucas, et al. 1998. Dinosaur skin impressions and associated skeletal remains from the upper campanian of southwestern New Mexico: New data on the integument morphology of hadrosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(Dec. 28):739.

Chiappe, L.M., et al. 1998. Sauropod dinosaur embryos from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 282(Nov. 19):258.

Sources:

Brian G. Anderson
Mesa Southwest Museum
53 North MacDonald Street
Mesa, AZ 85201

Kenneth Carpenter
Denver Museum of Natural History
Department of Earth Sciences
2001 Colorado Boulevard
Denver, CO 80205

Spencer G. Lucas
New Mexico Museum of Natural History
1801 Mountain Road NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 3, January 16, 1999, p. 38. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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