The earliest reptile body impressions with scaly skin Marchetti et al. describe Cabarzichnus, the first definite body impression of stem reptiles, specifically bolosaurians. Cabarzichnus includes the earliest fossil evidence of epidermal scales and a clo...

Paper on Early Permian scale impressions (of bolosaurian reptiles). It is difficult ard to interpret a tissue origin from imprints but it is most likely dermal indeed 🦎 #paleontology #fossilskin #softtissues #ichnology #footprints #scales

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Our report of original cutaneous spikes over integument of an iguanodontian from China (Yxian, Barremian) in @natecoevo.nature.com 🐉🦔 !
@naturalsciences-be.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @rennesuniv.bsky.social @oseren.bsky.social and Anhui Geological Museum.
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