http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2005/08/11/friday-dead-animal-blogging-2/ The institutionalized doodles and discoveries of a dead-animal designer. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:49:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2005/08/11/friday-dead-animal-blogging-2/comment-page-1/#comment-324 Hairy Museum of Natural History » Crouching Fossil, Hidden Dragon Mon, 22 May 2006 01:09:40 +0000 http://www.hmnh.org/?p=8#comment-324 [...] As if that weren’t enough, Yinlong offers clues to the origin of the Marginocephalia as well. Yinlong seems to bridge the gap between advanced marginocephalians and an earlier group of dinosaurs, the heterodontosaurs. This relationship has been suggested before, but Yinlong seems to offer the best evidence to date, with several characters of its skull and postcranial skeleton shared with the Heterodontosaur family. Xu X., Forster, C. A., Clark, J. M., & Mo, J. 2006 “A basal ceratopsian with transitional features from the Late Jurassic of northwestern China.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. First Cite Early Online Publishing. [...] [...] As if that weren’t enough, Yinlong offers clues to the origin of the Marginocephalia as well. Yinlong seems to bridge the gap between advanced marginocephalians and an earlier group of dinosaurs, the heterodontosaurs. This relationship has been suggested before, but Yinlong seems to offer the best evidence to date, with several characters of its skull and postcranial skeleton shared with the Heterodontosaur family. Xu X., Forster, C. A., Clark, J. M., & Mo, J. 2006 “A basal ceratopsian with transitional features from the Late Jurassic of northwestern China.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. First Cite Early Online Publishing. [...]

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