Top Tweets for #Osteoderms
Fluff your pillow Armadillo
#Pachyarmatherium leiseyi, “relatively thick osteoderm armor mammal” Downing & White 1995
At 5’ and 150+ lbs, twas larger than today’s giant #armadillo, #Priodontes maximus.
The #osteoderms are THICK! Check out the end to see.
#FossilCrates
🛡️🐍 Did you know that some snakes have hidden armour?
👩🏻🔬 Dr. Frýdlová from @science_charles and her colleagues have discovered #osteoderms in three additional snake species, including the very first record of osteoderms in shield-tailed snakes (Uropeltidae). 🤩 Link below ⬇️
#Borealosuchus, Late #Cretaceous -70 mya through #Eocene ~47 mya, Colorado to Canada #Crocodyliformes.
Tis interesting it is mounted sans #osteoderms. I love visible verts, but #osteoderms look cool!
The Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul @sciencemuseummn
#FossilCrates
Another #Triassic specimen for #FossilFriday. Multiple #osteoderms of #Desmatosuchus (DMNH 9940) from the Post Quarry, west Texas. Collected 1977, these #aetosaur armor plates were pretty blown up until @PerotMuseum team started reassembly last month. #paleontology #fossils
We've recently been involved in #lizards research showing that #osteoderms (plates of #bone in the #skin) can have more than one role, not only protective, but also in strengthening the #skull during #feeding. https://t.co/W4OmQ2aRlj
#biomechanics #morphology #formandfunction
Here’s a drawing I did of a Saltasaurus. #dinosaur #drawing #promarkers #sharpies #sauropods #saltasaurus #osteoderms #cartoon #cretaceous #SouthAmerica #Argentina
@CIA_UCL and collaborators use #computational modelling to explore #skull structure and function.
These blue-tongued #skinks have calcified organs formed directly within the #skin (#osteoderms), which contribute to the mechanics of the skull, even when only loosely attached.
Did we mention @CIA_UCL will be at the #ICVM2023 in Queensland, Australia, next month?! Here's the full programme - spot our contributors, including a symposium on #osteoderms (little #bony plates in the #skin of many animals).
#vertebrate #morphology
https://t.co/h7NYGC9TBw
@birkedal_henrik @DanMAX_MAXIV @AdrianXRP @VickaryousLab @AnthonyHerrel @mehran_moazen @ArsalanMarghoub @MAXIVLaboratory Apparently @birkedal_henrik isn't the only person who thinks #lizard #osteoderms are interesting.. @wileyinresearch says our biological reviews article was a #TopDownloadedArticle for 2021, I blame Loïc's beautiful cover image featuring @MorphoSource :) https://t.co/ZdVOHbsUC9
Thanks @DanMAX_MAXIV for a great beamtime on the structure/chemistry of #lizard #osteoderms with @AdrianXRP and Malene from @birkedal_henrik lab, leading on from work with @VickaryousLab @AnthonyHerrel @mehran_moazen @ArsalanMarghoub #XRF #XRD
#FossilFriday Big 13 million-year-old #osteoderms (shell bones) of the #Miocene #pampathere Scirrotherium from La Venta, #Colombia. These "glyptodillos" have a gap in their fossil record that probably extends back to the Eocene (20+ million years). 'Hope we eventually fill it!🤞
There's just something cool, almost mesmerizing, about the look of croc #osteoderms. These are just a few from a site in Arlington, Texas. About 95 million years old - give or take 1/2 million years. #FossilFriday #paleontology #fossils @PerotMuseum #crocodiles
Absolute honor to present our work on #lizard #Osteoderms @HFSP annual meeting - a great team @AnthonyHerrel @cjaw_art @VickaryousLab @ArsalanMarghoub & Abzhanov lab & Susan Evans.
#GilaMonster
#Heloderma #skull reminds me of #ankylosaurids like this Late #Jurassic #Mymoorapelta cast
Why does Gila have bumps? What was preying on a #venomous #lizard such that #osteoderms helped?
Those #teeth! I picked one up as a kid, glad I wasn’t bit!
#FossilCrates
The functional significance of #osteoderms remains a much-debated topic. Recently, Chris Broeckhoven @UAFunMorph @ESA and @AntonDragonfly investigated potential mineral resorption from osteoderms in the armadillo girdled #lizard. Full article: https://t.co/DLpuPphMos
Proud to have contributed to this paper describing @ArsalanMarghoub s materials engineering techniques applied to #liazrd #osteoderms to study their structure... https://t.co/uZoxV6X3Wo
@mehran_moazen @VickaryousLab @AnthonyHerrel and colleagues.
Spike Head - Literally!
#Akainacephalus rumbled across the Late #Cretaceous of #Utah
Red Circle = #caputegulum, bony pieces on the skull, diagnostic
#s = cervical half ring #osteoderms, very diagnostic
#Ankylosaur tail club = 3 osteoderms
#FossilCrates #Paleontology #dinosaurs
(3/3) The findings of this study fundamentally question the thermoregulatory role that #osteoderms play in P. palpebrosus, and maybe even for vertebrates in general. Read more at https://t.co/qDFWe3GuPH 🐊☀
New study out on the functional significance of #osteoderms in dwarf caimans (Paleosuchus palpebrosus) by Lissethe Veenstra (@VUB) and Chris Broeckhoven @UAFunMorph, testing the physiological role of osteoderms in #thermoregulation 🐊☀️ (1/3)
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