Definition of Osteoderms. Meaning of Osteoderms. Synonyms of Osteoderms

- Osteoderms are bony deposits forming scales, plates, or other structures based in the dermis. Osteoderms are found in many groups of extant and extinct...
- influence the amount of osteoderm present. There is much variation between osteoderms of dinosaurs. No two identical dinosaur osteoderms have been collected...
- collected 77 osteoderms while excavating a Tyrannosaurus specimen in the Lance Formation of Wyoming in 1900. He mentioned these osteoderms (specimen AMNH...
- anterior, mid and posterior trunk vertebrae), the sacral osteoderms above the hip and the caudal osteoderms that surround the tail (which can be further separated...
- 1839 by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire based on Sellow's osteoderms. Saint-Hillaire considered the osteoderms found by Sellow to not even be mammal, but instead...
- several fossil osteoderms were discovered "lying upon the surface of the soil" by John Bell Hatcher and T.W. Stanton. These osteoderms were initially...
- paramedian osteoderm rows are common in early archosauriforms, few reptiles approach aetosaurs in the complexity of their osteoderms. The osteoderms of doswelliids...
- formed by small bony plates known as osteoderms. Directly behind the animal's skull, protecting the neck, the osteoderms are fused together to create a rigid...
- symmetrical, hexagonal osteoderms in the dorsal carapace. In the osteoderms of adult G. texanum, the central figures of the osteoderms are flat or weakly...
- keeled with a concave inner surface, next to a flat triangular osteoderm. Keeled osteoderms were found on the outside of the feet, three on the left foot...