A Jurassic ornithischian dinosaur from Siberia with both feathers and scales

Author:

Godefroit Pascal1,Sinitsa Sofia M.2,Dhouailly Danielle3,Bolotsky Yuri L.4,Sizov Alexander V.5,McNamara Maria E.67,Benton Michael J.7,Spagna Paul1

Affiliation:

1. Directorate ‘Earth and History of Life,’ Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium.

2. Institute of Natural Resources, Ecology and Cryology, 26 Butin Street, 672 014 Chita, Russia.

3. UJF-CNRS FRE 3405, AGIM, Université Joseph Fourier, Site Santé, 38 706 La Tronche, France.

4. Institute of Geology and Nature Management, FEB RAS, 1 Relochny Street 675 000, Blagoveschensk, Russia.

5. Institute of the Earth Crust, SB RAS, 128 Lermontov Street, Irkutsk, 664 033 Irkutsk, Russia.

6. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

7. School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK.

Abstract

Feathers, not just for the birds? Theropod dinosaurs, thought to be the direct ancestors of birds, sported birdlike feathers. But were they the only feathery dino group? Godefroit et al. describe an early neornithischian dinosaur with both early feathers and scales. This seemingly feathery nontheropod dinosaur shows that feathers were not unique to the ancestors of birds and may even have been quite widespread. Science , this issue p. 451

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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