Third and most recent skeletal reconstruction, without scale or inset, of a reconstructed head after Mirasaura grauvogeli. Body is now longer and more drepanosaur-like.

Oh, but this wasn't enough.

A new paper by Spiekman et al. now propose Longisquama is a drepanosauromorph --or simiosaur, whatever -- and this comes it more peculiarites. It makes other things MAKE SENSE, too. Those RIBS.

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Same skeleton, better rendered, with smaller gray insert showing the shapes, but not the correct SIZE, of the midline dermal "appendages." It's also correctly sprawling.

The second came shortly after the publication of Buchwitz and Voigt in 2012 who described all the impressions of these peculiar midline dermal appendages.

This one's a lot better, and it fixes some issues with the first.

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Skeletal reconstruction of the small saurian Longisquama insignis, with a smaller version showing the size and extent of impressions of midline dermal "appendages," likened to "plumes."

It occurred to me to update my Longisquama skeletal reconstruction with recent findings of close relation to drepanosaurs.

The first one was dozens ans dozens of years ago, rendered from bad photographs. It's really bad.

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